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Science and Power 
of the Mind 



SCIENCE AND POWER 
OF THE MIND 



LECTURES ON LIFE AND HEALTH 

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RICHMOND L. BISHOP 

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Matter and mind have long been studied by the 
most gifted and intellectual scientists. 

The formation and structure of matter, its princi- 
ples and laws are so thoroughly and intelligently 
explained and systematized it has not seemed neces- 
sary to refer to any branch of physical science. 

The science of matter has been subdivided into 
geology, mineralogy, metallurgy, chemistry, astron- 
omy, but in reality no unity or harmony or cause has 
been recognized or determined upon. 

Outwardly much has been learned as to physical 
phenomena but as to its living principles the scientist 
is silent. He must never stray away from what he 
terms a fact — meaning a fact visible to the physical 
eye, or demonstrable through experiment. 

The mental scientist has observed the mind in its 
various phases and expression and generally reasons 
about "effects" and is obscure as to cause. 



6 FOREWORD 

These lectures explain the teachings of Natural 
Science as it relates to the life of man and the mental 
constitution. In physical or mental forms we believe 
that the same animating spirit is the cause of all life. 

Spirit is the life principle throughout the universe. 

We do not separate spirit and matter. It is in- 
divisible, Spirit and Matter are one, interblended, 
united, changing form according to the relationships 
in matter (chemical affinities) varying in form 
according to the degree of development, this is the 
governing principle, from the lowest atom to the 
highest intelligence, in this sphere, and in the unseen. 

We have endeavored to show that man is governed 
by these same Deific principles and his relationship 
to all life is according to his knowledge of these unerr- 
ing laws. 



Richmond L. Bishop 

Teacher and Practitioner of Natural Science 

Boston, Mass., June 30, 1914. 



Live as the immortal child of infinite Love and 
wisdom, and add thy measure to the universal growth. 



Kindle first the kingdom of heaven within, and the 
light from its portals will shine bright unto you. 



Seek not that which you cannot behold with mortal 
vision. 

Seek to unfold the inner consciousness that can 
behold all things. 



God is wiser, kinder and more powerful than man 
has ever conceived of. 



Harmonize yourself with Nature's treasures, and 
the deific centers of your own being will flood your 
soul with truths. 



Live not in error and failure when the road to more 
perfect life and accomplishment awaits you. 



Cast not your burdens on others. Let them fall 
to their own level. 



Live not in darkness and despair. From the gate- 
way of heaven the light is always shining. 



CONTENTS 



chapter page 

Foreword 5 

i Lessons in Naturae Science . . 11 

ii Vibration 17 

in Motion or Life 24 

iv Soue 39 

v Mind 52 

vi Control of Mind 62 

vn Conditions of Mind 74 

vin The Wiee of the Mind .... 87 

ix Mastery of Mind 92 

x Mind Through Matter .... 104 

xi The Individualized Mind . . . 114 
xii Power and Control of Life . 

Spirit Principles Through the Mind 127 

xin The Undeveloped Mind . . . . 137 

xiv The Unfortunate Mind . . . . 151 
xv The Fountain of Life That Plows 

Through the Mind . . . . 159 

xvi The Magnetic Aura 194 

xvn Psychic Science, or the Science of 

the Soul 201 

Afterword 206 



Science and Power 
of the Mind 



CHAPTEE I. 
LESSONS IN NATURAL SCIENCE. 

The object of this study is to teach each person 
how to use his own spiritual healing power, control 
his own vibratory force, and direct his own mental 
life so that there will be equalization (or harmony) 
of body, mind, and soul. 

NATURAL SCIENCE teaches that Nature's 
laws are the laws of life. This life which sustains 
us is more the reality than the life which appears 
about us, and we need more knowledge of this real 
life and of our relationship to it. We need to under- 
stand how to harmonize our physical, mental and 
spiritual faculties that they may be in unison with 
the Great Mind — or the Principles of Nature. 

We must build upon a firm foundation. The uni- 
versal laws live in every organism, and it is accord- 
ing to one's perception of these laws and forces that 



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one can build by truth — and the conscious principles 
of spirit in life. 

Different organisms have different qualities, but 
Deity lives in every form. Deity animates all things 
from the lowest form of matter to the highest individ- 
ual conception of life. 

We will briefly refer to the life principles in their 
action and combination and progression from the first 
manifestation — or the original cosmic mass — to the 
present forms, then onward to the higher vibrations, 
in order that we may generalize and then draw 
specific conclusions as to our own individualities and 
our adaptation to the universal principles, that we 
may find our own true individual expression. 

Spirit is the life of all, or the cause of all unfold- 
ment. It expresses itself in matter through motion 
and thus we have the forces (positive and negative 
action) that combine and recombine all elements. 

Through the varying developments of matter in its 
changes we find one life element of power — or radia- 
tion — in it all. It is vibration that reveals to us the 
degrees of progression from the elemental, and from 
this we learn the laws of heat and light and color 
and sound — yes of formation itself, and of all 
development. 

The power within the inconceivably small ions is 
inconceivable itself — and that life of the universe — 
or the spirit that animates all things, is inconceivable, 



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varying only according to the expression or develop- 
ment of that which it animates. 

It is this spirit that is our life. We need to 
establish in our own consciousness some idea of the 
physical and spiritual as these are interblended and 
expressed in the human ego, for this is the branch 
of Natural Science that we are studying. 

Motion is an expression of spirit, and spirit 
expresses itself through the body, mind, and soul, 
and it is this harmonization of spirit, the mental and 
physical, that determines the difference in individ- 
uals, for the qualities or degrees are determined as 
spirit expresses itself in vibration — or action — 
whether in matter, thought, act, or sensation. 

To have health it is necessary that the spirit have 
freedom through the mental avenues, that harmo- 
nious motion or circulation result. 

Perfect action would mean perfect health, there- 
fore when one organ becomes inactive — or its motion 
obstructed — this is soon communicated to the whole 
system and the vibration is lowered — or too greatly 
raised — and the harmonious circulation is impossible. 

We must relieve this physical condition by adjust- 
ing conditions and through motion cause the balance 
to be regained. This is true as to mental disturb- 
ances as well as the definite organic illnesses. 

Motion is an expression of spirit, and spirit 
expresses itself through the mind, body and soul. 



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The kind of motion must be adapted to the require- 
ment of the individual, his disease, his spiritual qual- 
ity, and his bodily organism. 

We will find that we are limited beings — limited 
only by ignorance — and this ignorance removed and 
our consciousness opened and freed, there are no 
bounds to be set to what we may accomplish through 
truth and wisdom. 

We must live in harmony with the laws of Nature. 
We must search ourselves to find in what way we lack 
knowledge and health, and then finding the weakness 
or the ignorance, set about the means to strengthen 
and to enlighten ourselves. In this way, step by 
step, one thing at a time, we round out some position, 
and build in such a degree that in the end we have 
accomplished the expansion of our whole individ- 
uality and established our health and harmony. 

We must realize the Deific power and principles 
as they live in us, for this temple is a far more beau- 
tiful dwelling place than we have ever dreamed. 
We have a beautiful body, a beautiful mental process, 
and a beautiful spiritual consciousness — all express- 
ing themselves as one in this material sphere, and the 
more we realize this value, the nearer we get to a 
realization of Divine law, and make a better, more 
refined, harmonious organism through which to 
express our conscious thoughts in health, in happi- 
ness, in the general uplift of all mankind. 



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We must lift ourselves to the plane of our fullest 
expression. We must express this divine principle 
of life, and light, and love, we must radiate these 
attributes of God that all may feel the truth that is 
universal. 

Illness, or unhappiness, means discord. The 
vibratory forces are not expressing harmony. We 
should look ourselves over and discover the cause of 
this illness or depression, and should tune our instru- 
ment before we play it, for if a key is out of tune, 
or a string not at the proper spiritual pitch, then 
there is inharmony of body and soul, for the body 
and mind act and react on each other. We must 
invite our spiritual aid reverently, respectfully, 
lovingly, and begin the harmonization that we may 
be in tune with all that is universal and divine. 

Know thyself! 

Perfect life in all its wonderful features includes 
the whole depth and breadth of creation. Unfold 
your vision. Know the creative force in life. 
Become a complete mechanism, limitless in power, a 
soul magnet of attraction through which life centers 
and gravitates to God. 

The great unseen universe is filled and flooded by 
thoughts and beautiful things that have never been 
expressed by man. We are breaking the chains of 
old tradition, we are leaving behind us the dogmas 
and superstitions that for ages have so congested the 



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material world and blinded the spiritual vision of 
people. We are advancing strongly and emphatic- 
ally through our mentality to the threshold of eternal 
consciousness. We are removing all the obstacles 
that narrow minds, and wrong conceptions, have 
placed in the way that lead to the "heights where love 
and life are eternally united. 



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CHAPTEK II. 
VIBRATION. 

Vibration, the result of motion, is a living prin- 
ciple. It is life and power within itself, and through 
its prnciples are all life-building processes, as well 
as transmission of phenomena, whether material or 
spiritual. 

Just now we will consider more especially individ- 
ual vibration, for each one sends out vibration that 
is a result of his own quality of life, so it is necessary 
to know whether we have use for all that comes 
within our own atmosphere, or whether we should 
reject much that is the result of superficial thinking 
and ignorant living. 

We unconsciously choose and attract such vibra- 
tion from other personalities as is naturally adapted 
to our atmosphere, and the more we have grown into 
the finer faculties of life and the more refined our 
conditions have become, the more sensitive we are to 



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vibration, yet the more powerful not only in the 
quality and kind of our own vibration, but the more 
intelligent in choosing or rejecting other vibratory 
conditions ; and the more are we filled with the uni- 
versal love principles and with all the higher expres- 
sions of the life elements for growth in wisdom and 
knowledge, for our own progression, and for the 
betterment of all others who come under the rays of 
our own life. 

The coarser vibrations that are constantly sent out 
from the lower planes of humanity have no place in 
your harmonious blending of forces, and you should 
not allow the disturbing waves to strike the vibratory 
strings of your own life. You must close yourself 
against their vibration; then they do not reach you. 
Or if you have become disturbed, and do not under- 
stand the cause, examine yourself thoroughly, find 
the cause of the vibration which is foreign to your 
poise, and through your spiritual consciousness you 
will sense the quality that you would reject, — and 
after becoming passive a moment — demand its 
departure in justice to yourself, and to all others 
whom you may come in touch with. Through the 
laws of justice and the spiritual truth through which 
you are living, the disturbing elements will have no 
power over you. You have asserted a higher power 
over an inferior power, and that of itself explains 
naturally why it should withdraw from you. 



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Always maintain the right position, and by con- 
stantly asking the spiritual essence that lives within 
you to ever vibrate in the mental and physical expres- 
sion for more light and life of the spiritual charac- 
ter, you will attract the vibrations from the universe 
spiritually, mentally, and physically that will add 
to your wisdom and light, truth and charity and 
harmony, and all the higher faculties that live and 
operate in life, because you have then harmonized 
your own spirituality with your physical and mental 
conditions. 

This harmonization results in family harmony, 
and social harmony, and will result in universal har- 
mony, because as each individual vibrates harmo- 
niously he naturally is in vibration with the higher 
life and the wiser souls of that plane, and because of 
this union and co-operation, through the law of har- 
mony, life will become larger and more beautiful 
and more expressive in all the natural elements and 
all the natural unfoldments. 

We should study these laws that we may become 
better unfolded in them, and thus safe-guarded and 
safe-guided; by the beautiful conditions we enter 
more easily into the luminous avenues of life and 
unfold the higher principles of our own conscious, 
natural self. 

This is natural law. The abnormal individuals 
look upon us as abnormal, but they judge wrongfully 



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because of their ignorance. We are in the minority 
because we live nearer the great fountain of truth, 
yet we are privileged to live in the sweetness of life 
that speaks in a voice unknown to many ; its language 
is such a harmonious melody of thought that it means 
more in our life than all the material gain that could 
possibly be given us. 

We are always happy in seeking for more light 
and truth, and we must realize the beauty of the laws 
of vibration for it is through these processes that we 
build from our own soul-center, and the vibration will 
be of just the same quality as is the life of our soul. 

Vibrations are limitless in power to dispel dark- 
ness, illness, all congestion, all the superficial things 
of life, and enable us to live naturally, normally, 
and to individualize as was rightly intended for us, 
to unfold the beautiful qualities spontaneously 
instead of through suffering. But the vibrations of 
ignorance, of sadness, of discord, of unrest, and of 
injustice, and of selfishness have made abnormal con- 
ditions and given unlovely qualities to work through, 
and to finally be made harmonious. 

So as brothers and sisters working with the high 
teachers of spiritual intelligence, we must put our 
shoulders to the wheel that is ever turning for 
progress, and heart to heart and hand to hand, become 
a forceful power because of this better understanding 
of the laws of vibration we live in; and assisted by 



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Nature, endowed by every beautiful faculty that lives 
in the universe, may we overthrow ignorance and 
remove suffering, and make the world a kingdom of 
harmony. 

The higher teachers deem it necessary that kind 
mortals should teach the world more truth through 
these natural avenues, and this school is established 
to give an opportunity for all who would learn more 
of the laws of Nature to become a powerful soul 
center, illumined from the heights of spirituality 
and conscious of the vibratory force that is constantly 
radiating and building through the life elements 
thafc the world will become natural and normal, lighted 
by wisdom and governed by love. By this creative 
force all life will be interblended — and the question 
will no longer be asked, "Why is there sorrow — why 
is there suffering," because these conditions will be 
attuned to wisdom, and glory, and truth, and all the 
spirituality that pervades all things for performing, 
for crystalizing, for refining, for perfecting life to 
the degree that the heart and soul of every living 
thing will answer that there is no more ignorance, 
therefore all life vibrates without the conditions that 
have retarded the growth of souls in the past. 

There will be no love of seeing any one else suffer, 
no unnatural desire of selfish gain — no inability to 
recognize the natural purposes of life. 

This teaches us to gather and build always in the 



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luminous life elements, and to grow in love and 
charity, free from superstitions. 

We never need allow inharmony to dwell with us. 
Nature's vibrations are light and life, and are har- 
monious. Let us deal cautiously and kindly with 
our lives, and then we will be cautious and kindly to 
others, and will receive such light as will make us 
conscious souls in Natural Science, which uses for 
its resources Nature's laws, and sets up no standard 
other than that of Nature. Its ship keeps off the 
shallows of authority and directs its course toward 
the breadth of the universe, where there is plenty of 
room and always natural growth. Thus guided by 
the higher laws, through vibratory forces, it will be 
well reefed, well trimmed to sail the seas of this life, 
and at last all who step on its deck, will, through the 
recognition of every natural law, be anchored at last 
in the great harbor of peace where they will find the 
beautiful things awaiting them ; for all the efforts have 
been made for the construction of the little craft, 
through its careful designers, through its intelligent 
mechanics, and its skilled pilot, that it may hold 
forever as a careful piece of work, normally intended 
as a fulfilment of every law in life that has revealed 
itself from the beginning through all creation. 

These life elements live as an adjustment for all 
of mankind, to feed hungry hearts and hungry souls, 
and to guide the inquiring mind on its true way. 



OF THE MIND 23 

These sweet vibrations may play upon the instru- 
ments of light and the beautiful melody may be heard 
by the listening soul throughout all eternity. 



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CHAPTER III. 
MOTION OB LIFE. 

The Power which emanates from spirit is the 
Cause of all Phenomena. All forces are united by 
a degree of relationship, and a relationship of degrees. 

This determines the quality and development and 
progression of everything from the lowest form to 
the highest intelligence. 

Motion has its own principles of action, governed 
always by perfect laws. An increase of motion 
changes solids to fluids, fluids to gases, all inde- 
structible, all ascending into higher expressions held 
by perfect relationships and energized by the life 
spirit that is Universal. 

Through vibration the world expresses itself in 
heat, light, color, and sound, and through our own 
bodily organs we receive these varying expresisons 
through the same laws of adaptation and vibration, 



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and express again in turn, our own nature or heat or 
color or light or sound! 

Chemical force, electric force, mechanical force, 
magnetic force are all the result of motion. The 
physical body is a world of motion, of combination, 
of degrees, of relationships, acted upon by the world 
of motion without, and the vibratory forces of the 
unseen universe as through sensation and impression 
the soul is touched and responds through the mind to 
express itself in some form upon the body. 

Mind is the highest found vibration, and its 
"energy" from combination of spiritual essences 
determines the individual life, and the welfare of all 
humanity. 

The individual is the growth and unfoldment that 
results from spiritual and material vibration. 

If there were not a spiritual being there would 
not be spiritual vibration. We are conscious of the 
spiritual being within, and we are conscious of the 
spiritual vibrations necessary to govern and control 
in Natural law that spirit life, because no form of 
life can exist without law, and law itself is life. 

It is natural that we should become cognizant of 
the existing motions and vibrations, as they are the 
first expressions of life, the first thing man awakens 
to, and as thought becomes more advanced and more 
conscious of spiritual law we find it necessary to 
understand the blending of spirit and matter, and 



26 SCIENCE AND POWEK 

their positive and negative relations, and their har- 
monizing together for all growth and individualiza- 
tion. 

The more refined the vibration the stronger it is, 
and more powerful than the coarser vibrations of that 
which seems to be pure matter, for it is the energy 
of life itself. 

According to the condition and the plane of the 
vibration is the quality which governs the expression. 
This result is in perfect proportion to the cause, and 
determines the length of the waves. 

Motion is life, and if it were not there would be 
no vibratory phenomena. 

Spirit and matter are so interwoven by laws of 
nature that man has not been able to detect one vibra- 
tion from the other, and because he lives and vibrates 
on a material plane it is natural that he sees vibra- 
tion only from his own point of view, and so con- 
siders vibration the energy of matter alone. 

But the two are so interblended and in such abso- 
lute harmony with natural law that the spiritual 
vibrations are to be seen, and the spiritual vibrations 
are to be heard, after the spiritual faculties have 
been attuned to the harmonious relationship of the 
material and spiritual interblending of life. 

It is because the spiritual vibrations are so delicate 
and ethereal in their expressions that the materialist 
cannot have conscious knowledge of them. 



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No man can prove spiritual law by the material 
point of view alone. No man can demonstrate the 
reality of spiritual vibration by measuring the visible 
waves of radiation. He must become spiritualized 
himself, a living creature, then is the key given him 
for spiritual investigation and he obtains spiritual 
results. 

The world has been so material in its considera- 
tions that it has attempted to prove or disprove all 
things by its own materialistic point of view. Mate- 
rial vibrations are adapted to their own plane of 
action, and perfect in that sense, serving the material 
purposes, and accomplish what the finer spiritual 
vibrations are not suited to do. 

This is the beautiful constructive principle that 
we find throughout all the avenues of Nature that 
man may individualize as spirit, and through the 
higher vibrations always progress throughout endless 
time. 

We should emphasize the importance of recogniz- 
ing physical law for this will lead man to understand 
the higher and spiritual vibratory force which is life 
itself, eternal, and the outcome of the physical and 
spiritual interblending in positive and negative rela- 
tionships, each making a perfect whole. 

It is all the outworking of natural law for the 
growth of the soul, on different planes, which is the 
principle of progression. 



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It is an endless chain. It has no beginning, and 
no ending, but expresses itself ceaselessly that we 
may awaken to the glorious revelation that man is a 
progressive being, destined for an immortal existence. 

The fact that the rate of vibration determines the 
form of matter, whether it be solid, or fluid, or 
gaseous, or electric energy, proves that both spirit 
and matter are controlled by vibration, and that all 
vibration may be called spiritual as the finer are the 
cause of the coarser vibrations which produced 
matter, so all life is a complete expression of spirit. 

When man becomes intelligent enough to live in 
these laws naturally, the things that retard his 
progress will have passed away. It will not be neces- 
sary to call this life material, but it can then be more 
truly realized that that which is called matter is but 
the outward expression of the spirit that lives within 
every entity. 

We do not naturally call wood, iron, or steel, 
spirit, but positive and negative influences produced 
them — they have a mother, and a, father, the forma- 
tive influences from which all life results. 

Spirit is the cause, and these are but visible and 
tangible expressions of spirit, and it is as necessary 
that they be coarse and dense, as it is necessary for 
the bark of a tree to be thick that it may guard the 
inner life of the wood. So it is necessary for the 
outward expression of spirit to be heavy enough to 



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guard the finer elements that are the inner essences 
of all life, the beautiful love expressions and elements 
that are the cause of all form and all growth, power- 
ful yet delicate, all-wise, all-knowing, limitless in 
development ; perfectly governed by perfect laws, 
adapted to their own plane and purposes, without 
beginning and without end, and differing only in 
their manner of operating; so that we can find no 
real separation between spirit and matter, but realize 
that it is held as one life, manifesting from the qual- 
ity that is causation and is progressively and appro- 
priately forming and reforming according to its 
vibratory plane of action. 

Even the physical body at transition goes back into 
spiritual elements, while the spiritual character that 
has individualized gains admission to the higher 
spiritual plane and finds its place that is determined 
by the degree of vibration that it has gained in its 
conscious experience which was necessary to guard 
the spirit while functioning on this material plane of 
existence. In this way it can be made more refined 
for the higher plane, as that plane is more delicate in 
its conditions than anything we can realize while we 
view the material structure of life. 

The spiritual is not only more powerful, more 
sensitive, more refined, but softer, lighter, more 
peaceful, more loving, more natural, more beautiful 
in its perfect interblending of vibratory forces than 



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mortal realizes. Its conditions of progression are 
perfectly adapted for the soul sent out of this earthly 
life, perfectly constructed for a peaceful, harmonious 
abiding place, without beginning, without end. 

So it is all but a forming and reforming and a 
transforming of life, and the meaning is progression 
for us all — and vibratory conditions determine the 
progression of the individual from the time he 
becomes a conscious being, throughout eternity. 

It is well for us to become informed about all the 
vibrations that are functionizing in the physical 
organism that we may comprehend the harmonization 
of all the vibratory forces in their wonderful work 
and purposes and relationships in the individual. 

We should make our habits of life normal and 
natural that from our own temperamental predis- 
position we will produce normal and harmonious con- 
ditions of the vibratory system in mind, body and 
soul. 

If we allow our vibrations to become disturbed 
either from physical or conditional outside influences, 
we are allowing discord to interrupt the equality of 
our vibrating forces, and we are soon conscious of 
an abnormal condition which may bring about dis- 
turbances in the temperature, through the circulation 
of the blood, by accelerated heart-beats, through agi- 
tation, or the lessening of the heart action through 
its sympathetic relationship and sensitiveness to that 



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which we find disagreeable and unfavorable for us. 
The mucous and serous membranes generate a poison 
— (this is easily proved by chemical analysis) and 
the whole system can be debilitated or congested by 
the disturbance especially if it be long continued. 

It is necessary to learn to control these harmful 
variations from normal vibration, and this can be 
done through the mental poise and will power, so 
that disturbance from within or without can be sub- 
dued and vanquished by the command of the self 
that is the rightful ruler of the individual. 

These vibrations change the very color of physical 
emanations as they show themselves in aura or 
magnetic atmospheres. 

The result in every way, every form, every expres- 
sion is proportionate to the change of vibration, so 
that the condition we desire to obtain is an equilib- 
rium, or complete balance of the vibratory systems. 

The harmonious relation of all vibration to every 
part of the body will result in a rhythm, a harmony, 
an interblending of the powers and life principles 
of the physical and spiritual structure in the whole 
expression of the whole being, because the highest 
wisdom has established this as a universal order in 
all life, and they are the love elements of Deity that 
express the beauty and strength of all that is the life 
of Deity. 

All of our senses and faculties can be enlivened 



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and improved and every condition of life can be made 
normal and natural. These vibratory forces must be 
controlled and directed through an understanding of 
Natural law, and must be used intelligently. There 
must be full recognition of the high purposes that the 
body is designed to perform. It is the house of the 
soul, the physical temple of the mind while the in- 
dividual is experiencing in this first sphere, and 
learning how to best express the soul qualities through 
the physical adjustments and to unfold the mental 
powers through wisdom. 

In pursuance of this object, mankind has formed 
many theories, and religions, and while there is 
always somewhat of truth at the basis of any belief 
or practice, this truth is usually obscured by the 
falsities and the exaggerations, the extremes and the 
unnaturalness of the doctrines or practices that obtain 
for a while, and then are supplanted by something 
new. When the vibratory influences are beginning 
to express their truth, and are gradually working 
through humanity to establish a fuller recognition of 
the mechanism of all nature's beautiful forms, they 
lead to an appreciation of what a perfectly con- 
structed physical organism we are given that we may 
awaken to its laws and its uses, and not continue in 
the confusion of unwise teachings, and be ignorant of 
the treasures of our own life. 

The so-called senses are the gateways of wonderful 



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privileges. These are acted upon by external sources 
and transmit the result to the brain which is adapted 
by its refined physical structures to receive every 
impression not only from without, but from within 
the interior organism, and respond to the perfect 
relationships that exist in every part of the body and 
to all that is life in Nature. 

We have already said that matter is the lowest 
form of energy or vibration, but all of these forms 
have their perfect adjustment one to the other, 
according to their quality, and are connected 
according to their progression on the ascending scale. 
We have found that light is a higher form of heat, 
that sensation is a higher form of life as matter has 
ascended through motion. 

Energy determines tone — energy determines the 
brilliancy of light. Quality depends upon the shape 
of the sound wave — color depends upon the refrac- 
tion of the rays of light — so we have shape or form in 
all these waves, and find also that in no extreme is 
permanent strength. The higher tones are more 
brilliant than the lower — in light the higher vibra- 
tions are more intense; in individuals the higher 
vibrations are more refined — or brilliant, though a 
perfect temperamental equalization of the vibratory 
forces is absolutely necessary for harmony — and the 
pitch — or standard or quality of vibration can be 
determined in persons as well as in light or sound. 



34 SCIENCE AND POWER 

We speak of different individuals as differently 
keyed — of varying tones, — of density, or of lightness. 
And to show the relationship and degrees of vibration 
in all expressions we speak of color tones in music, of 
light and shade both in music and in language, and in 
art, of color in literature, — so the mind distinguishes 
the same characteristics in everything, and tone, and 
color, and form are not confined to material objects, 
but are descriptive of mental achievements as they 
speak from the brain or form themselves by the hand 
of man, in any expression of art, or any structure of 
mechanics. 

The effect of these sound and light waves on the 
physical body is marked by sensation as to the 
physical temperature, in heat and light, — and by 
muscular and nervous response to sound. It is also 
according to one's refinement (or key) or vibration 
that this response comes — and we have what is 
through this relationship of vibration, taste in music, 
in motion, — as well as taste in color, and apprecia- 
tion of natural beauty. 

The real effects are more to be measured through 
the soul's vibratory life, than through the purely 
physical organism, which of course has its sensory 
nerves so interblended with the soul functions that 
it is difficult to mark where one begins and the other 
leaves off. 

There are also the perfect physical adaptations of 



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taste, touch, and smell, in perfect harmony with the 
fluid and solid matter (which we have said are merely 
different vibratory rates) and with the essences which 
are still higher vibrations of the solids and fluids. 

All these senses can be refined, extended, and im- 
proved, and governed by the vibratory forces that are 
a part of themselves yet higher in the scale of life 
and expression, as they are the intelligence of the 
brain, and the principles of the soul. 

Yet physically these wonderful powers seem almost 
automatic in their working, so perfect is the relation- 
ship of all things, and to be intelligent within their 
very life structure. The eye rejects intensity or 
extremes as surely as it welcomes that which is agree- 
able. The ear receives harmonious sound but would 
close itself against discord; the sense of smell is so 
keen that the delicate odors in Nature are inhaled 
gratefully while the disagreeable is scorned before 
the thinking faculties could judge of the possibly 
injurious qualities in the atmosphere. 

The taste is naturally sure to choose the good from 
the injurious. The brain itself is adapted to the 
right uses of its own beautiful refinements even to the 
receiving of spiritual illumination. 

The whole bodily organism is a wonderful physical 
system, twofold in all its structures, vibrating by its 
positive and negative principles, constructive and 
expansive, filled with all that is life-giving, healthful, 



36 SCIENCE AND POWEE 

adjusting, and restorative, a system within a system 
of matter that is built up from foundation principles, 
bone, and muscle, nerve and sinew, membrane, and 
artery. Cell is built upon cell, form upon form, 
until the brain is the refined and completed organism 
which sends its life intelligence into all parts of the 
body through its nerve filaments. Every part is a 
vibratory, rhythmic, related force with its inherent 
attractions and repulsions, its power to use all that 
is appropriate to its functions, and reject all that is 
not necessary to its constant chemical processes of 
the organism, thus blending all the parts so that there 
seems no separation of body, soul, or spirit. Through 
the complete relationship through the unity of the 
being, through the vibratory harmony, the physical, 
mental and spiritual equalization has made a self 
development that determines its own relationship to 
the universe of matter, the universe of spirit, and of 
individual to individual. 

As we are attaining to this intelligence and unfold- 
ment and power, we become more and more conscious 
of the use of the quality of vibration, and realize the 
physical sensitiveness and need of all the elements 
that exist to nourish, strengthen and support it, in 
all that is atmosphere — light, air, heat, water, food, 
motion ; and guard and choose wisely from the mate- 
rial universe that which is in color, tone, or har- 
mony with our vibrating physical condition; and so 



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strengthen, renew, heal, or reconstruct shattered 
tissue by whatever natural restorative power that 
seems best adapted to our individual needs. 

We have the broad fields of Nature to walk in, the 
Universal treasures to gather from, and the great 
wisdom to which we may expand in consciousness. 
Let us rejoice in this privilege of choice and adapta- 
tions, let us judge wisely of all the healthful provi- 
sions that have come through these vibratory prin- 
ciples, that flower and fruit and give forth atmos- 
phere, and that flow in purity, and shine in light, and 
in air which vivifies the whole being and seems like 
the breath of life. 

Let us find our harmonization with the move- 
ments of the solar system, recognizing law in all the 
changes and periodicities of the universal order, and 
find ourselves as a universe within a universe, with 
the formative elements, the chemical processes, the 
electrical polarities, the magnetic refinements that 
life in every atom, by its motion, evolves a perfect 
structure with perfect interblendings of life, with 
possibilities of perfect harmonization, and with the 
power of perfect relationships to the universe, to 
each other, and to ourselves. 

This vital principle is the attraction that is in all 
particles, all powers, all forms, the love life of the 
universe. It vibrates in different degrees and binds 
all life together. New truths as to the physical life 



38 SCIENCE AND POWEE 

of the individual, and a new psychological under- 
standing of the vibratory influences and interblend- 
ings and powers will transform life. 



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CHAPTEE IV. 
SOUL. 

We have briefly considered the recognized vibratory 
forces of matter — planetary — and the vibrations of 
the physical body, as it is related to the external 
universe; that is, in its adaptation to light, heat, 
sound, sensation, its action and reaction, chemical, 
mechanical, magnetic. 

Now we want to consider the more intimate in- 
dividual vibratory processes of the soul, as it acts 
and reacts on the body, through the higher vibratory 
expressions of thought and emotion, and learn the 
harmonization of the soul's expression, and thus 
establish physical harmony. 

The key-note of the soul should be found and all 
of life set in tune. 

Different people have different rates of tempera- 
mental vibration, different combinations of matter 
and spirit, or body and soul — hereditary, constitu- 
tional, and individual. 



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Some are slow, thus apparently more dense, some 
are more in accord with the external vibrations, while 
some are in higher tone and receive and express the 
spiritual life. 

Harmony is the equality of these temperamental 
vibrations, in which the individuality is never lost, 
but is more perfectly expressed. 

The soul's expressons are the affections, the attrac- 
tions of all life as they appeal directly or indirectly 
to the individual ; all the loves, of self, of family, of 
friends, — all the resultant emotions of selfishness or 
unselfishness, patience, kindness, or jealousy, envy 
and strife ; and the cultivation of the best expressions 
should be the aim of every individual. All these 
feelings and sensations must be keyed to the individ- 
ual note of vibration, to harmonize, and make the 
circulation even. 

Our motion is increased or decreased according to 
the energy of our sensation. The effect on the body 
is well known, it is even measured by fine instru- 
ments, so that we can realize materially how our own 
vibratory soul waves, (as they express themselves in 
feeling and thought,) can be measured in heart-beats, 
in electric vibration and finally photographed in 
color, which proves that our physical vibration is 
refined to atmosphere or aura, — these waves are the 
most delicate of color. 

There is absolute universal sameness in all prin- 



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ciples — heat, resulting in light, color, sound waves, 
and form. 

These we express in our affections, or likes and 
dislikes, to the degree of motion that we vibrate in 
sensation. 

Music, color, nature, art, philanthropy, poetry, 
charity, mechanics, chemistry, invention, work of any 
kind, art of any kind, love of any kind, thought of 
any kind is energy, force, motion, love — and as heat 
gives light so do we radiate according to our harmon- 
ization of the vibratory forces, — and this is felt by 
others. It even molds our faces into individual 
expression, just as surely as it molds planetary forms, 
— and this explains why character is written in every 
feature and act. 

Vibrations of soul are from vibratory forces of 
spirit within that is filled with all the spiritual prin- 
ciples and the higher constructive elements of life, 
and the soul is ever giving forth these delicate and 
beautiful vibrations that are filled with the very love 
elements of our life. These sensations and emotions 
which are the finer faculties, and the more refined 
constructive processes, are ever radiating upon the 
mind from the higher and more perfect conditions 
within themselves, because they are of a high pro- 
gressed nature, and are untiring in their effort to 
strengthen, sustain, upbuild, reconstruct, and inspire 
through the mind to the physical organism a more 



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healthy condition, more refined, more progressed, and 
more consciously responsive to the vibrations which 
are so filled with principles of spirit divine. 

It is impossible for such vibrations to radiate 
through the soul without giving a wonderful uplift 
and refreshing atmosphere to the mind as well as 
body, and to affect also all to whom you send such 
vibrations. 

Your own body or any other organism cannot help 
but respond to these life elements that vibrate from 
the soul, for these vibrations are superior in wisdom, 
and power, in life force in nature, for Nature itself 
is the only healing restorative known under the 
heavens, and these are the highest forces in Nature. 
It is impossible to bathe continuously in this vibra- 
tory force of light and love without sooner or later 
responding to its wonderful rays of power and truth, 
and realizing that the Universe of Nature is the Uni- 
verse of Life. 

Again we repeat, that our development will be in 
proportion to our knowledge and capability of con- 
trolling and using these vibratory forces in our own 
life, physically, mentally, and spiritually; and our 
advance to position, and our growth in life, will 
depend upon our own use of these operating laws of 
the universe. 

This is the only actual, and normal, and natural 
good in life — that which you develop for yourself as 



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you become a useful instrument in the laws of life — 
not living unconsciously in simple goodness, like the 
apple as it hangs upon the tree dwarfed by its environ- 
ment, inoculated by some lower form, then dropping 
immaturely to the ground — a windfall. But you 
will grow in the full maturity of Nature in coloring, 
in sweetness, in the usefulness, as does the ripened 
apple, and at last you will find that you have not 
lived only because of environment but have ripened 
a wonderful seed that will be planted and spring up 
into more trees that will bear more apples with 
double the seed to be planted in this universe, to bear 
more fruit. 

This is activity in service not only for yourself 
but according to the all-wise constructive plan of the 
universe ; it is for all humanity. 

This is one of the sweet reassurances that in the 
unf oldment of life you cannot live for yourself alone, 
you cannot exist selfishly, for while you are receiving 
from mankind you are recognizing your own rela- 
tionship to mankind and in this sense you are sharing 
your unfoldment with your brother man and sister 
woman. 

The soul's rays sent forth by vibratory action are 
the very essence of life, from the soul center that is 
made up of the progressed power and refinement of 
eternity — therefore we term it the essence of pro- 



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cesses and powers whose possibilities have not been 
unfolded to the world. 

It is as refining in its process as is the power of 
heat in the material sense to refine substance. As 
example, put ice in boiling water and very shortly it 
all becomes as boiling water. The ice has passed 
through the refining processes of the high vibrations 
of heat — and though it was originally made up of 
water that had stood in ponds exposed to the impur- 
ities of crude matter, it has become refined to the 
same condition of that which it now associates with, 
through the higher vibrations that we call heat. 

The soul processes are as sure. It is shone upon, 
vibrated upon, by the highest life principles that are 
limitless in power and wisdom. Through this can 
all things be accomplished, therefore it behooves man 
to learn this truth concerning the soul's vibratory 
conditions. 

That we may realize more fully its limitless pro- 
gressive principles, let us again refer to material 
phenomena and reflect upon the processes which have 
been forming the sphere of matter which we call the 
earth. We know the story that science tells us of 
the crude conditions and the gradual unfoldment of 
forms of life — the vibratory processes of that which 
they name energy. This same power has always 
lived in life — in the universe, and in man, and the 
same power that is being used through the inventions 



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of the present time, the wonderful mechanisms of 
construction and destruction, the controlling of the 
electric waves of ether, the wireless methods in radio 
engineering, the science of radio-dynamics, with its 
wonderful demonstrations of impulses sent from some 
power house, some wireless station that transmits not 
only messages and photographs, and sound, but which 
controls signals, operates distant objects, pilots ships 
at sea, that mirrors, records invisibly, almost trans- 
mitting thought from brain to brain — as well as the 
image of thought to insensate objects. This same 
power lived in all the centuries that have passed — but 
man was living in the coarser, denser material condi- 
tions responsive only to the vibrations that are 
natural to that plane of development, and the finer 
vibrations that emanate from the soul — the essence 
of life itself — did not manifest as it does today. 

Unfoldment is a growth — and man's progression 
is in proportion to the universal law. Individuals 
and nations in the past have responded to the uni- 
versal atmosphere of truth, in some phase or other, 
but as a whole mankind is now awakening to the 
higher vibrations of the soul, as never before. 

Wonderful unfoldments will result. Even our 
material scientists say they know not what the 
development will be. Civilization, and the forms of 
civilization must change, — and before the scientists 
finish their investigations of this life power — this 



46 SCIENCE AND POWEK 

universal energy and electric force — they will trace 
light and power in all its action, from the center 
magnet from the unknown higher power, and in time 
will arrive where the vibrations of the soul will be 
revealed. So far they are but started in the little 
streams of knowledge from this great reservoir, but 
as time goes on they will eventually find the main 
body, and the relationships of the source of mankind 
will be seen in its power of life, and the individual 
will be understood as also a central organ of power 
and life of the highest construction. 

The soul center in the unseen is the center of the 
universe, and all life, however small, even the atom, 
the cell, has its own center, its own life force, and 
is an intelligence as an individual in power, and plays 
its part in the development of forms; so that it is 
one round of development from the atom — the ion of 
energy, — the cell of living tissue — to the great center 
of the whole universe. 

When we reach the development of a master mind 
and become so advanced because of our love of pro- 
gression, there will be no question of our ability to 
send good thoughts out into the world, for our minds 
have formed a fitting structure for sending thought. 
The vibrations of the soul have established its 
strength and it will always stand for what you have 
made it, a power in life. 

The strongest, yet most beautiful, vibratory force 



OF THE MIND 47 

that radiates from the soul, is the vibration of love. 
That is why Love has been called God — and God has 
been called Love. This is the highest power, this 
vibration of love, and will succeed in its effort when 
all other efforts fail, for other efforts are on a lower 
plane where the vibrations are correspondingly less 
refined. 

When we work out our progression and arrive at 
the plane of a master mind, we share nothing but 
love for all. Even the ignorant man whom you call 
your enemy you will love, for you will then see him 
as he is, and your sensitive emotions of peace and 
harmony hold the justice firmly fortified that the love 
elements within have built as a heaven itself, and 
because of this, the masterpiece, the master mind of 
all is this love element of life, which in its vibrations 
expresses all the delicacy, and tenderness, and peace- 
fulness in its harmonious relationship with all that 
is of universal relationship. 

Thus we find that no soul can find the individual 
key-note that enables him to strike the proper octave 
of harmonious vibrations until he is progressed to 
the stage of development where he receives the soul 
vibrations in every atom of the physical body, and 
becomes thoroughly cleansed by its purifying pro- 
cesses. 

Until mankind unfolds to that degree in soul vibra- 
tion he is living in unwise and unhappy and promis- 



48 SCIENCE AND POWEK 

cuous relationships, and not in the system of Nature's 
laws. He is wandering in the dark, in a condition 
that is merely experimental, and which cannot pro- 
duce satisfactory adjustments of any kind. He is 
unintelligent and unable to find those who may be 
tuned to the key-note that harmonizes with his life, — 
and so the world is filled with discord. 

The leader of an orchestra would never arrange for 
a bass viol and a drum to play together or for other 
instruments so unrelated in vibratory quality, but he 
finds his right toned instruments in careful grada- 
tion, attuned to their key-note, arranged suitably to 
each other in harmonious vibration, perfectly related 
in tone to each other in the musical kingdom, and 
then the result is a "concord of sweet sound." 

In the harmonization of society, and the happiness 
of mankind this is a much more important science, 
and a necessity for every soul, — every mortal to know 
the vibratory laws of his own being. This is an 
absolutely important thing in the education of youth, 
and should be an every-day study. Then, when each 
knows his temperamental vibration in coloring, in 
the physical structure, in any especial talent, in 
thought, and in the love elements, he can study to 
better adjust its inequalities and to direct its harmo- 
nious unfoldment which is in accord with his key- 
note, his vibratory plane, and he can recognize what- 
ever his relationship may be to another, to those who 



OF THE MIND 49 

should be associated with him, and who should espe- 
cially play with him in the great symphony of life. 
This is the natural result of the natural elements of 
the physical, mental, and spiritual unfoldment, built 
by Nature's laws — not by individual selfishness, but 
by absolute unselfishness, and through which is the 
only way that man can ever gain absolute freedom. 
This freedom is the birthright of every man and 
woman — the freedom to live in the constructive plan 
of life, and thus to unfold the beautiful qualities of 
the individual, and together progress in the harmony 
that is an eternal principle of Nature. 

Then there would be no discord for people would 
recognize the different qualities and qualifications of 
each other, and would naturally recognize each as a 
different instrument which in proper balance and 
relationship gives peace and tune to all. Each is 
necessary to every other, but the right instruments 
must be brought together, and each must in kindness 
recognize the rights of others. 

This leaves no room for discord or inequality of 
position. Each will know his own place, each will 
be as happy in his orchestral part, and whatever the 
differences, or the qualities, will play on as tunefully 
as fife and drum, as the more harmonious harp and 
violin. Each will be content, for each will know 
how to adjust his life naturally, properly, and in 
order, and as God loving children work out the laws 



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that reach to the soul center of each individual, and 
know his own. Then there will be no need of laws 
of detention that are both obstructive and destructive 
to the soul's expression, but with the great lesson that 
has opened the understanding, illuminated the brain, 
and penetrated every atom of the whole being, man- 
kind will walk out into the glory and freedom of his 
own life! 

When life is attuned to these vibrations — as skill- 
fully as an orchestra is attuned to the instrumental 
pitch — there cannot be sickness or the ills of social 
life, for these are the obstructive elements that are 
the result of unwise and inharmonious relations. 
When man knows his own place and becomes a 
natural creature through the physical, mental and 
spiritual unf oldment, then will freedom be the effect, 
and the door of detention will fall. Victory will be 
won. Slavery will cease. The love elements of the 
universe will be operating in the highest and most 
powerful vibration. Deity's laws will be understood, 
and all of mankind will know what we have now 
learned, that the vibration of soul is the gateway to 
life and liberty, to peace and harmony, and to all that 
is unfolded by progression. 

The School of Natural Science has opened this 
gateway, and invites man to walk therein. 

Its walls are built of wisdom, its decorations are 
the principles of truth. Its doors are opened free to 



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all souls who grope toward light, and who seek truth 
and unselfishness and the fuller understanding of all 
the great vibratory principles of the Universe of Life. 



52 SCIENCE AND POWEE 



CHAPTEK V. 
MIND. 

The mind is a mirror of all the vibrations of 
physical and spiritual life ; a receiver of all thought 
vibrations, and a complete register that retains all 
thoughts and acts and deeds of life from the time of 
birth throughout eternity. 

The mind is a spiritual instrument that sits upon 
the seat of justice ready to respond to the action of 
the physical brain and to the soul sensations and gives 
forth its vibrations from the spiritual principles 
within man. 

This part of the Mechanism of the life conscious- 
ness of each individual lives through time and eter- 
nity. It responds to every emotion of life, and seems 
to hold a neutral position in order to do absolute 
justice to the individual. In its vibratory rate and 
refinement and sensitiveness it is next to the soul. 

It is of great importance to know how to operate 



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the physical organism because of this wonderful 
receiver and register of life. It is necessary to 
awaken to the beauty of its limitless possibilities, not 
only in its manifestations here but in that which 
awaits us hereafter. 

The reflection of the soul's vibrations continuously 
feed the mind with wisdom, power and beauty. It 
is because of this that the mind holds a balancing 
power over the material life that will naturally lead 
man into the fuller realization of the celestial prin- 
ciples of higher and nobler living. The mind 
responds to the condition the individual makes, and 
a mind that is stimulated by the reflections of the 
high and broad conditions that we may establish 
within ourselves, will become a wonderful power, 
since it is a receptacle for strength, for life-giving 
principles through deific wisdom. 

Such a mind is fitted to be an influence in the 
lives of others to just that degree, that are banished 
from the brain the smaller and less intelligent, 
obstructing things of material life, that are superfi- 
cial and unnecessary, and have been brought into 
life through the ignorance of man. Then through 
the limitless wisdom of the constructing principles of 
life, through natural laws that are immutable and 
unchangeable and that man must always respond to 
in order to be a successful operator of those vibratory 
forces, will be established a condition that will be free 



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and unhampered by the shortcomings, the mistakes, 
the suffering that always results from the lower and 
materialistic vibratory conditions. 

Then only can the mind be at liberty to play its 
part in the highest, ethereal life giving things, and 
this too will be in accord with the opportunity we 
give it to respond to the promptings of the soul's 
vibrations. 

The mind is a most delicate, most beautiful instru- 
ment. It is the sensitive plate of our life. It is 
made up of the spiritual principles and life elements 
of the all-wise constructing forces, that it may 
become an instrument to receive and transmit all 
thought vibration, and to reflect into the individual 
life whatever is for its upbuilding — and by the same 
principle of operating responds to all that which 
retards progress, because it responds to every thought, 
every act, every deed, and every intention of that 
which is materialistic as well as spiritual. 

Thus it holds man up to the bar of his own justice 
or injustice, to awaken in his consciousness the knowl- 
edge that he cannot live in darkness and expect the 
light. He cannot live influenced by inferior asso- 
ciates and by inferior attractions whether they be 
thoughts or entities, or live without any purpose in 
life and still expect the beautiful and that which is 
most desirable. 

If man wanders away into the onesided aspects of 



OF THE MIND 55 

materialism and an apparently wasted life — yet 
which is not wasted, for its expression was doubtless 
necessary that he might receive more light and find 
it a necessity to respond to the higher vibrations after 
sufficient experience with that which was coarser, 
then through suffering he will awaken to the normal 
and natural way of living, and become poised and 
strong. 

The mind keeps a very accurate account, and its 
lessons are burned deeply into memory, and it is 
always waiting for the recognition of the con- 
sequences that result from superficial and wasted 
living. 

Mind is kind and just in its constructive princi- 
ples. It never deceives, but gives a full account of 
what has been done. 

Then when we find that the individual life begins 
to turn toward the higher vibrations that radiate from 
the central soul of spiritual principles, when the 
individual arrives at this center, the mind then 
reflects what has been lived. It is like a crystal, 
clear, and pure, ethereal and sensitive, and seems to 
hold within itself no cloud nor darkness, yet it centers 
and reflects all the life of the individual, and he can 
look upon it as a wonderful picture, a revelation, — 
and in a flash beholds presented to his understanding 
the physical organism, and sees that every atom of 



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the body has responded to what the life has been in 
all its expressions and emotions. 

The finer things cannot be given language, for 
mind has such powers, such possibilities that it 
receives and responds to all the vibratory forces of 
the universe, to the great deific teacher, the center of 
soul vibrations, to the essence of life that gives of its 
powers as fast as is desired, as fast as is made good 
use of, and which is always giving to the mind the 
beautiful principles of pure wisdom and love. 

Thus we find that the great lesson of progression is 
being received by the mind and the brain is respond- 
ing to such thoughts and the physical organism is 
feeling and sensing the powerful rays of intelligent 
vibrations from the soul, and from the mind that 
receives from the soul, and thus it is reflecting these 
thoughts and the higher vibrations that are limitless 
in all the conscious knowledge of the universe, phys- 
ically and spiritually, for progressive life. 

Through these processes the mind is continually 
clarifying and purifying the material body of all 
its dross and making it a sensitive organism for 
finer expressions. The individual becomes attuned 
to all the progressive vibrations that radiate from the 
heights until he arrives at a normal condition of 
health and harmony, and responds to all the lumi- 
nous qualities from the deific center. It has become 
a normal physical instrument because of these purify- 



OF THE MIND 57 

ing powers of the soul vibrations. The mind has 
been given absolute freedom to work in absolute 
harmony with all the building processes and it 
responds to all thought vibration for wisdom and 
knowledge of natural law that are the only avenues 
of progressive life. Then the mind cannot be inter- 
rupted by superficial things because the physical 
organs have been forced to a harmony by natural 
principles that have interblended with the mind ; and 
through these essences of life's all-wise truths the 
mind has been sweetened and strengthened, and 
receives and transmits these limitless powers as fast 
as the individual can make use of them for self, and 
for mankind. 

In this mental poise the individual cannot be 
swayed by inferior individuals because the mind does 
not respond to superficial and lesser attractions. The 
mind always responds to the vibratory plane of its 
own conditions, whether in earthly life or in spiritual 
spheres. Mind must always harmonize with itself 
for more life, and in return give out more life, as it 
progresses in the divine, constructive delicate vibra- 
tions that are just and beautiful in all their princi- 
ples. 

It was the same angel of love in the first experi- 
ences, for it gave man an accurate account of the 
coarser experiences that caused him to turn to the 
finer expressions. And even though we receive the 



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knowledge of these coarser experiences the mind is so 
wonderfully constructed that it is in itself a restora- 
tive, and responds lovingly to the touch of the highest 
vibratory forces, and cleanses the brain and purifies 
the consciousness and places the experiences in its 
divine usefulness, that the individual may become 
beautiful in the light, truth, and life of immortal 
intentions and realizations, and reflect its visions 
from the soul center of unseen life upon the brain. 
The consciousness responds to all the principles, and 
these are operating laws for every living creature 
from the lowest type of man in earth-life to the 
highest spiritual unfoldment. 

Thus we find the mind a thing of purity, — of 
beauty, of love, of delicacy, and it receives the per- 
fumes and essences of all truths in all forms of life 
and because of this it presents the highest, strongest, 
noblest, purest character building that is inexpress- 
ible, unspeakable by mortal lips, to be sensed, to be 
felt, to be lived within, by every individual. 

We are led to behold the truth that the vibrations 
of mind are constructed by the wisest principles in 
the constructive laws of life, enduring, and by its 
restorative power is the great time keeper of life, the 
great intelligence that knows all the phases and forms 
from the lower, darkened conditions to the highest 
glory of God's merciful love, wisdom and beauty. 

We find in this the qualities that never die, qual- 



OF THE MIND 59 

ities never so darkened but that they can be cleansed 
and clarified and purified and unfolded to all that is 
progressively beautiful and powerful and true. 

Therefore mind is untiring and enduring. It is 
filled with life, with vibratory principles that can 
never be destroyed, that can never be broken. It is 
beyond what has been put in words. It is the abso- 
lute saviour of the individual for it never loses in 
any phase of life. If the individual has retrograded 
so that all of his life has to be lived in conditions that 
must serve as a lesson of lower things, it will in the 
higher life bring the individual out into the higher 
plane and the realization will come that he is a part 
of the higher expression, and that the only love in 
life is the love of truth in progression and that 
unfoldment must result through self in the laws of 
deity in earth and in spirit life. 

It speaks a language even in the world life — a 
language of silence. It can be understood in all 
other lives. It photographs all conditions of every 
life that it comes in contact with, and is held upon 
the tablet of vision to be seen and understood. 

This life of deity in each individual registers wis- 
dom. It speaks with wisdom, it speaks in tones of 
silence — it is unspeakable, it throbs with love never 
uttered, it pulsates in tones never heard, it radiates 
light and life in such delicate purity that man feels 



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its divinity in his soul, and reflects its rays to every 
atom in his material organism. 

Thus it receives, holds, and reflects all of the 
higher love principles, cleanses and purifies every 
atom of the body, and at last gives mankind wonder- 
ful visions by its reflecting power, of the divine 
creature that has been guided up from the lowest 
elements of life to the highest plane of God's love. 

Each individual is given the consciousness that he 
has become a soul force, and in time is going to add 
to the universe of highest expression a power that 
has never unfolded in any other character, because 
there never can be absolutely the same expression of 
characteristics in different individuals^ but that each 
unfolds by God's plan, and that the universe is made 
more loving, more beautiful, more luminous, more 
expressive, greater and stronger than at any time 
previous because through every individual soul and 
character is received a higher degree that contin- 
uously unfolds the universal life. 

This is received by the angels of the higher life 
and beheld by them as a new power of new beauty, 
new in its living qualities, new in all its faculties, for 
a new character has been unfolded and there will be 
rejoicing from the heights, and a symphony will 
sound in more beautiful tones because of this har- 
mony that has become a part of the great orchestra of 
the universe. 



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A new born soul has entered another sphere of 
soul possibilities and its vibrations are radiant with 
the purifying light of the heights. It is now a 
mirror to reflect its own life to the universe. 

Now you understand the wonderful soul you have 
been and are, because of your purpose to be of service 
to all humanity, and your service will be beheld and 
known through the mind's vibrations as they reflect 
from the heights to the lowest valleys, and the souls 
that cry out in these valleys will receive new light, 
new power, new principles, and will be reached as 
never before. 

Thus you have been a saviour to yourself and to 
others, through the mind's wonderful vibratory prin- 
ciples in the universe of life. 



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CHAPTEE VI. 
CONTROL OF MIND. 

Every new born babe is a delicate sensitive instru- 
ment brought into the earth life where it is destined 
to grow to maturity that it may unfold its own indi- 
viduality and develop a character in likeness to Deity. 
The experiences of this life are for the purpose of 
unfolding the most beautiful attributes in the indi- 
vidual nature. 

In order that a child may have a fair and normal 
opportunity to grow into the best expressions, and 
have control of his own personality or mind, it is 
most important that the influences of the parents and 
all that which surrounds him as a babe are those 
which are best adapted for this unfoldment, and such 
as will be wisest in assisting him to use his own rea- 
soning powers as immaturity is outgrown. 

A great responsibility rests with parents, and we 
feel that many adults are now suffering because of 



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the unfitness of their parents to be real teachers of 
the philosophy of life, and they in turn have not 
given their offspring the best opportunity or the 
wisest guidance for the broadest and most unselfish 
development of their personality. Therefore we 
have the child handicapped by parental conditions 
and by heredity. The past generations have been 
hindered by the teachings that were ignorant and 
unjust. 

This has not been the result of wilfulness nor 
because people did not desire the best, but they had 
not received the truth, and they were unable to give 
their children a philosophic basis for understanding 
life. Even the inequalities of their own natures 
were mirrored in the characteristics of their children 
— and so the race has struggled up through supersti- 
tion and selfishness, and children have had to accept 
the opinions and ideals and the limited knowledge of 
their parents, and conform to the standards of custom 
and the forms of the age they live in, until at matur- 
ity there are few children who have any ability to 
think for themselves or feel any desire for a better 
expression than has been handed down from the past. 

The personality is smothered. It has not had an 
even chance to develop as Deity in Nature provided. 
It has been robbed of its birthright, and wrong inter- 
pretations have been given as to its life. There are 
no truly natural nor normal conditions surrounding 



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the young and the great constructive plan of life is 
unrecognized. If by chance the youth is later led to 
a philosophy that teaches natural laws in all their 
varied expressions, if through some experience he is 
eager to reach the center of truth, and is led into a 
knowledge of the universe, the principles of Deity, 
and his own vibratory forces, then he for the first 
time beholds what has always existed, and which 
Nature has always so beautifully provided through 
all her forms for the progression of all life. 

This child has much to overcome. The past con- 
ditions have been unfavorable. Heredity and environ- 
ment are reflected in the mind. Then must he find 
the avenue that leads to the normal condition as 
nature intended him to walk in. 

After opening the consciousness to natural truths 
and after casting out the obstructive teachings of the 
past, we find that the mind responds by its own beau- 
tiful qualities. This mentality has always been 
guarding and guiding the child — but has never before 
been given any opportunity of expressing its own 
inner principles. It has at last led the youth into a 
love for philosophic truth, because the mind itself 
has all the attributes of the higher life principles, 
and is ever speaking to the brain itself to reverse its 
action of thought that it may develop naturally, and 
allow the individual to live truly, and thus draw the 



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whole entity unto itself and express all its higher 
impulses. 

Then the mind, because of its normal and natural 
vibrations, is kindred with the soul, and this is ever 
prompting the mind with higher desires, ever leading 
man to a knowledge of the higher vibrations and self 
realization. 

To prove this let us again speak of childhood, — of 
the little one with its unfair chance in life. By and 
by it reaches the period when it begins to understand 
something of right and wrong. 

Very likely the child may show ill-nature, selfish- 
ness, or possible unkindness at times, because all of 
these traits of character have been absorbed from the 
atmosphere of the parents, and transmitted from their 
fore-fathers, and also result from their early teaching 
— yet, in spite of all these abnormal conditions that 
are implanted in that little life, the soul is ever 
reflecting itself, prompting the mind, speaking with 
intelligence, wisdom, and right, and it always in- 
fluences towards the right way, to the right unfold- 
ment, to the higher conditions, to the more beautiful 
expressions, and leads it sometimes into the sweet 
dreams of a future existence that it may influence 
the child to a higher inspiration — but opposed to this 
is the constant rebuke of the parents — that the child 
is continually doing wrong, acting wrong, thinking 
wrong, — and still the parents are not awake to the 



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fact that the child's behavior reflects the image they 
planted there, and that the mind of the dear little one 
is still holding so sweetly the natural essences, the 
building and constructive principles of universal life 
and God's love. 

So we find, that after all, the mind is ever working 
with its own vibration to turn the thoughts of the 
little one to all that is high, all that is ennobling, until 
the child struggles on out of its suffering, out from 
its punishments, out from the environment, out from 
the influences it unconsciously absorbs, out from the 
injustice of the parents who do not recognize the 
reflection of their own lives in that which displeases 
them in their child, and that which the mind has 
been given no chance to cast off that it may assume 
its own beautiful image, until by its own pure ele- 
ments the mind asserts its own natural expression. 

The mind never becomes so affected by conditions 
of darkness that its restorative elements are lost, but 
it cleanses itself so clear that it nestles close in the 
life of the child with its tender love and mercy, with 
its God given truths, ever speaking kindly, nobly, 
wisely, until it has melted away the dross and density 
and coarseness of the lower vibratory conditions that 
had been cast upon it through the ignorance of its 
ancestors, and through the unfortunate unfairness 
and opposition of surrounding circumstances and 
influences. 



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Thus we find that the child arrives at a larger and 
broader view of life because of all these purifying 
elements of the mind, because of its loving principles, 
because of its ever enduring qualities, because of its 
unfailing effort toward mastery, and by its ennobling 
guidance toward all that is powerful and good. Thus 
it leads the individual to its own awakening, when 
it may behold the universal laws from within and 
from without the universe even to the heights and 
centers of eternity. 

Its normal poise, its fair opportunities, its even 
chances given to it by its soul's birthright, stand 
before its vision; it is felt in the brain as a mighty 
picture. It sees as it looks carefully and closely into 
the mind and beholds the principles and possibilities 
and limitless love for growth — which is the greatest 
incentive of all to all true children of earth — and it 
finds that it is like looking into life itself. The 
longer you look, the more carefully you think, the 
kinder you become, the wiser you grow, the more 
keenly are you awakened to your responsibilities. 
You see so many other lives reflected in your own 
life. You sense the unspeakable truth of the soul's 
radiation, (that is so powerful in all its operating 
principles to awaken the consciousness to realize the 
great universal laws) that lives in keeping and in 
harmony with the mind, which is the avenue to the 



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great spiritual life, both in mortal and in spirit, that 
holds within it Deity's plan for eternal progression. 

The brain awakens under these normal and natural 
conditions, the conditions it should have had when a 
babe, and because of the tender loving goodness of 
the mind it has become a guide in character building, 
and is fitted to control the brain, because it is ever 
ready to respond to the operating laws in God's Uni- 
verse, to every loving principle for wisdom and 
growth. 

It is through this harmonization and love of indi- 
vidual development that the mind responds to its 
natural influences. 

Now the mind and brain walk together in co-opera- 
tion. The responding of the brain to the noble 
possessions of the mind has harmonized the vibrations 
of the brain, mind, and soul, and made a completion, 
a oneness, united by the living principle of spirit, 
baptized by wisdom, tenderly guarded and guided by 
Infinite Love, till the highest soul centers pour in 
upon the individual their powers and truth and the 
three parts in life are interblended. 

The cold world of misunderstanding can never 
sever this relationship within the individual. The 
mind has received the influx of its own divine powers, 
and the brain submits to its requests, because the 
material organism has become strong and wise in its 
operating powers, through the supremacy of the soul. 



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He can direct his mind to the limitless power of 
spirituality that vibrates through the soul to the mind 
and brain, and direct this force to any part of the 
body for the upbuilding of tissue, or for strengthen- 
ing the organism, or for giving light to the material 
densities, to dispel the coarser, obstructive elements 
that are caused by ignorance, and that make the 
inharmony of body, mind, and soul. 

These vibrations are luminous, powerful, ethereal 
— they are life itself. They can freshen every organ- 
ism. They can restore individual poise. They can 
renew energy, they can remove from lives every 
thought, every act, every deed that was ever thrust 
upon the organism or cast into that atmosphere 
through unfairness and unfavorable opportunities of 
the child life, and make the mind free, and the mate- 
rial organs harmonious in their functioning. The 
rhythmic harmony that is given through Nature's 
laws can be established — even though it has been 
seriously interf erred with, — until, there is a perfect 
harmony of pulsating and heart-throbbing music in 
the physical condition, for it has been clarified of all 
its weaknesses and made strong through its own indi- 
vidual victory. 

It has become a harmonious personality through 
the mind vibrations, and the mind controls the organ- 
ism, directs wisely and counsels uprightly and truth- 
fully. 



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This gives one access to the great swinging of the 
living pendulum that keeps every organ function- 
ing, every atom of body, mind, and soul swinging also 
in rhythmic action, and it gives access to the great 
universe of life which moves in harmony, in keeping 
with every deific law. There is always an accuracy 
of adjustment, and you can regulate your organism, 
body, mind, and soul, to just the conditions that you 
have progressed to in the adjustment of your life as 
time goes on, and this pendulum will swing more 
accurately, more beautifully, and express more light, 
more love, more strength, more delicacy and beauty 
through the delicacy of the higher vibrations of this 
harmony of body, mind, and soul, until you find you 
have reached a higher plane in material life. Before 
you pass from this existence you may be a master 
mind because you have learned the way and come 
into harmony of the physical organism, in harmony 
with all the beautiful attributes of the mind that are 
being constantly fed from the soul's vibrations, and so 
you are a mighty operator in the universal principles 
of three in one. Now have you been put in time. 
You are in harmony. 

All can find their key-note, all can find their octave 
and attune themselves to the higher vibration, all can 
strike their key at one time and find the harmonious 
vibration of the different keys and octaves. All this 
is necessary in order to work out a complete and uni- 



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versal life, and to become awakened to the true 
knowledge that by the vibratory forces of mind, the 
child lost in the wilderness of material expression has 
been guarded in all the youthful wanderings, pro- 
tected yet allowed every lesson to be engraved deeply. 

Mind is true to its duties and moves on every 
plane. It may be called upon to operate from child- 
hood throughout eternity. Thus even the child is 
led to the throne of its own conviction and awakened 
to higher truths. The beautiful bud has blossomed 
within its life, and has unfolded its own individual- 
ity. Thus are conditions worked through till the 
avenue is reached that leads to the higher plane of 
vibration, step by step — sometimes the individual 
almost despairs on the way because the clouds of the 
past experiences are so dark, but the enduring, 
energetic vibrations of the mind dispel the density 
and light and truth make clear the way, until the 
child has become a man, and the man has become a 
harmonious soul in all the natural functions. The 
years of varied experiences have made him a complete 
operator in these laws of life that control the mind's 
vibrations. 

He has been forced to work out his own salvation 
in health, life, in wisdom, and has radiated and illu- 
mined his own life by the higher and more glorious 
revelations that are within the universal centers of 
God's love and truth. He has become a power to 



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reach out into earth and to teach other hungry and 
thirsting souls to awaken slumbering minds to recog- 
nize their normal and natural condition. 

Thousands shall be led to this consciousness by the 
working out of this one lif e, by the wonderful reflec- 
tion of this sensitive plate within, until the atmos- 
pheres of others are penetrated, and they are assisted 
upward in the same pathway, and their lives find the 
adjustment that must take place, sooner or later, in 
every individual. 

Such progressed souls are not only teachers but are 
powers in the world. Their influence is felt in the 
souls of men. Thousands shall be led to the centers 
of their own truth, and from this searchlight that is 
cast upon God's universe from the reflection of this 
great power, the lost individual will be found. Their 
unfair chances, their crude conditions, their suffer- 
ings no longer hold them, but lighted by the great 
rays of soul life directed by the mind's vibrations 
they shall follow this light and unfold to conscious 
knowledge of the truth. This light may be from 
your own soul, shining by its wisdom gained through 
the earthly expression, kindled by the loving tender- 
ness of the spirituality of the mind. 

You have worked out your own salvation, and thus 
you are living in the higher atmosphere of a more 
perfected condition in life. All this is through the 
spiritual principle that lives in the mind. This is 



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ever beckoning to the individual to turn the brain's 
operating functions to its universal principles, and 
with its tenderness and love and all enduring power 
gives you mastery of mind that will never be lost. 
No power is so superior that you will ever give up 
this individuality or character, but you will grow 
wiser and more beautiful, and more powerful 
throughout eternity. 

This is all yours because of the vibratory forces of 
the mind and of your knowledge of its powers. 

Listen to its voice. Behold its image — it reveals 
Deity's love. As a child it has led you, and trusted 
you, and guarded you — and you have proved a 
worthy character in all these varied expressions. 



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CHAPTER VII. 
CONDITIONS OF MIND. 

Mind is subject to vibrations that are in accord 
with the condition of the individual. The world 
should be better informed of these conditions in life, 
and awakened to the influences that assist individuals 
from the results of their own carelessness or ignorance 
or misdeeds. The laws that govern the mind should 
be better understood, then can health and happiness 
be safeguarded. 

Many are awakened to a realization of their super- 
ficial living or misused talents and the natural oppor- 
tunities for better expression only through suffering 
or perhaps that which seems a complete downfall 
materially or physically. 

The mind that has fed itself upon all the attrac- 
tions of the lower environment, cannot respond to the 
higher and nobler ideals, or be companioned by minds 
that are superior and more intelligent. The coarser 



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mentality gathers to itself the debris that chokes the 
very outlet of inner, purer consciousness. It not 
only builds obstacles, but it accepts the materialistic 
standards that time and ignorance and custom have 
already set up as desirable possessions. 

According to the situation, environment, education 
or ignorance, talent or craftiness, coarseness, brutal- 
ity, or abnormal ideals does the individual seek to 
gratify his tastes or acquire the things that seem 
necessary to his enjoyment. 

And while the individual is often a victim of 
hereditary environment, while he does not have any 
choice as to his place of birth or parentage, or early 
associations or education, or deprivation — yet the 
mind gives back just what its constitutional tendencies 
indicate, and just what the individual loves and 
absorbs — whether this is of a base, criminal, intem- 
perate, materialistic nature or whether it is of a 
refined, unselfish, just, loving, truthful, intelligent 
and gifted expression. 

It is true that at the beginning and even in later 
years the unfortunate wrong doer, and sufferer or 
degenerate is not responsible for his condition, but it 
is the outcome of the ignorance, oppression, bestiality, 
greed, disease, and injustice of that great factor we 
call civilization — yet the lack of development, the 
darkness, the illness, the crime, the materialism 
dwarfs that mind and soul and draws to itself the 



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influences of that plane of life, until it is awakened 
either here or hereafter to the beautiful and natural 
truths that are the wisdom of the ages crying outside 
the gates of life, asking admittance and recognition. 
There is no need of living in suffering or ignorance. 
The Powers of Nature are sufficient for every indi- 
vidual, — and while there are devoted lives who have 
always given themselves for the unfortunate, — and 
while there is at this time an effort more mighty than 
has ever been put forth before to establish justice to 
men, women and children in every walk in life, yet 
civilization is held back by the selfishness of the 
powerful, and by the ignorance of the masses. 

To those who are most responsible, to those who 
evade the duties of our common humanity, to those 
will come the bitterest awakening. Cause and effect 
go hand in hand. They are inseparable, twin prin- 
ciples of the universe of matter, the universe of soul, 
and the universe of mind. 

There is absolute justice in this and while much 
of the suffering of life comes through ignorance, its 
effects are just as legitimate as that which results 
through wilfulness. The latter may be more stubborn, 
may be harder to awaken to his responsibilities, but 
the pain and the deprivations and the lack of develop- 
ment give suffering wherever they are found. To 
save the world this wasted time, this needless misery, 
we earnestly call your attention to the unerring law 



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in matter and in mind that like attracts like, and 
such is the universal relationship, such is the connec- 
tion between the seen and the unseen, that whether 
we are sensitive enough to recognize it or not, there 
is a potency in the unseen that is as influencing and 
as powerful as that which we visibly behold, tangibly 
handle, or audibly hear. 

The great forces of mind are operating in an 
unrealized unity; they are everywhere operating 
according to the development, the taste, the culture, 
or the ignorance of that which we term consciousness. 
The psychic waves are as real as those of the ether. 
They are as accurate in their transmitting and receiv- 
ing power. They build temples of wisdom, or they 
gather to themselves the superficial attractions and 
form structures that allure the imagination and 
minister to the materialism of the superficial. 

Life is permeated with their magnetism, their 
customs, their standards, their authorities, their 
injustices, their diseases, their crimes, their false 
loves, their perversions. 

If the awakening has not come when the mortal 
body is cast aside, then the mind takes with itself the 
effects of its misused, misguided, ignorance. We 
have said in a previous lecture that mind is a great 
reflector. In its constitution it is pure, natural, 
noble — but in the earthly life it manifests through a 
material organ, the brain, and in turn is acted upon 



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by the soul's vibrations. If the soul has been 
dwarfed by unwise and harmful loves, and has been 
the birthplace of unkindness, bitterness, malice, and 
injustice (whatever the cause, whatever the responsi- 
bility) it takes this unloveliness into the second 
sphere, where it there must work out its salvation 
and awaken to the light, and outgrow its ill-propor- 
tions. 

Though spirit is pure, spirit is the life principle, 
that too expresses itself in soul characteristics, and 
the unhappy mortal or undeveloped individual in the 
second sphere is not transformed suddenly into a 
being of light, wisdom, and power, neither is he made 
suddenly whole, and clean, and sinless, through the 
suffering or wisdom of any other being. He must 
work out the consequences of his uphappy life, his 
unfavorable conditions, and while in this plane, he is 
yet far from wise, far from loving, far from just, 
far from high ideals, and if the life of men and 
women in the earth is vibrating in those same avenues, 
they are inviting the same sort of companionship 
from the unseen that they co-operate with and fellow- 
ship with upon the visible plane of life. 

In either case, upon either plane, in either sphere 
the mind is perfectly just and honest and ever ready 
to respond to what you absolutely wish to be, and it 
presents to you, your life that you are living day by 
day, continually trying to make plain to you that 



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you are stepping downward, and that any time you 
are ready to turn, any time you have received enough 
of such experiences it will be your guide and your 
protector, it will reveal to you as fast as you can 
receive, your own powers, and will attract to itself 
the influences and potencies according to its advance, 
and lead you into the treasures of your own mentality 
— that which is not superficial in principle, nor mate- 
rialistic in structure — that which cannot be given 
you, nor bought, nor sold, nor taken away from you. 

So should you be a law unto yourself, poised and 
undismayed, secure, uninfluenced by anything in- 
ferior to your soul's highest endeavor for true, natural 
expression. 

But the petty materialism, the ignorance, the 
injustice, the superstition, the civilization that is not 
in keeping with Deity's laws, but is in response to 
the accomplishments of man, the idols, the money 
gods, the fashionable perversities, have made the race 
susceptible to these expressions, and mind reflects to 
them their own lives. 

Thus these conditions are man-made, and vibra- 
tions of a coarse, materialistic nature are forced upon 
the brain, and in this selfish turmoil there seems but 
little opportunity for God's beautiful systems of law, 
— revealed through nature — to attract the minds that 
are opened to such influences from individuals who 



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live upon that plane of life, and who are in harmony 
with them. 

Thus we find that there is a certain assistance given 
either in the upward or downward tendency, accord- 
ing to man's conception of living, and influences are 
attracted from either side of life that co-operate with 
their own kind, making a twofold factor in develop- 
ment or retrogression. 

If the physical organism and mental direction are 
of the nature to express excess or unbalance and if 
life has presented opportunities for unrestraint, then 
a sensitive organism becomes more sensitive to the 
outside influences that are vibrating on just that 
plane, sensitive to the individuals who are living just 
that kind of life, sensitive to the spirit entities that 
are in unison with those desires, and the mind 
vibrates with just that which the individual life has 
placed upon the brain both in earth's existence and 
in spirit existence. 

Thus they are not alone. They had company 
before transition and they have company after transi- 
tion, and the thought that they would not be lonely 
nor alone encouraged them to continue in their course 
of action. It has been said that "misery loves com- 
pany" because they are comforted by the very natural 
feeling that they have not stepped so far downward 
but that they will meet many pilgrims of the same 
kind by the wayside. 



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The minds that are thus sensitive to outside 
influences are always sensitive to the thoughts and 
atmospheres in life that are thrown off as waste 
matter from those who are outgrowing such conditions 
and are leaving the debris behind. 

Such densities are absorbed unconsciously by the 
unpoised, undeveloped, weak ones who are living in 
the depths of ignorance. Thus we find them always 
complaining of their troubles, of their condition 
physically and materially, of injustice, of the unfair- 
ness of others, and everything in life seems wrong to 
them. They do not find the wrong in themselves, 
and finally arrive at the necessity of seeking the help 
and advice of the higher souls in earth's expression 
who are healers and teachers of right living, and they 
are sometimes led to such instruments through the 
thought of some higher soul in spirit, that they may 
be awakened to a higher mentality and become 
susceptible to finer vibrations. 

The mind responds to those conditions, and begins 
its true development. Would that all could begin 
this unfoldment of their own natural consciousness 
from the first, and give the mind its opportunity to 
always reflect back the great and beautiful truths for 
better things and wiser living. 

The world has been in ignorance of its own laws, 
— and "we would not have you ignorant brethren" — 
but when you have made such conditions and lived 



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under them, do not be surprised, do not complain for 
that which yon have invited into your life — that to 
which you have opened your consciousness, and that 
which fills the mind with coarseness and obstructions. 

These conditions disarrange the beautiful princi- 
ples of thought and impair the brain structure and 
sometimes the excess is such that you are preparing 
for absolute lack of control and an unreasoning, un- 
balanced mental condition. While we sympathize 
with every unfair beginning in childhood, before 
individual responsibility can be established, and 
while we are inspired with deep sympathy for all 
unfortunates, yet are we fired with deeper enthusiasm 
to teach you the normal natural laws and vibratory 
forces in the world, that you may better know what 
you may expect from your own individual life, not 
only in its independent action, but by inviting into 
its consciousness other lives that are abnormal and 
bring other degrees of ignorance and viciousness and 
folly into your atmosphere. You receive in return 
just what you place within your mind. 

The angels of the higher spheres through the 
instrumentality of the intelligent souls in earth life 
are setting forth the laws of the mind that greater 
activity may be given the mind and awaken all people 
to a realization of truth. 

When a seed has been wrongly planted there must 
be a wonderful cultivation given it in order to get 



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good products from it. And so with that which has 
been implanted in the brain through the misunder- 
standing of the past, and because of this injustice, in 
the name of the great Deific principle that throbs so 
tenderly and lovingly in the universe, that reaches 
out with arms of truth to bring to its breast all such 
weary souls, and gather into safety all who have 
journeyed downward in the pathway of retrogression, 
let us become more obedient to the laws that govern 
mind so wisely, and interpret these laws as they 
reveal themselves in the great universe of truth. 

This intelligence which flows through natural 
avenues enters in upon the mind, enlarging it, radiat- 
ing it with wisdom, adding vibratory power, and 
through its finer principles in mind even those minds 
of which we have spoken, shall be brought back to 
their normal places of adjustment, back to their own 
centralized power, and normal vibrations established. 

The characters of saddened experiences in mind 
and body, those who have been made abnormal by the 
absorption of such unwholesomeness, have closed the 
chapter of such suffering for eternity. 

They have found their way back, they have found 
their adjustment, they have found themselves as new 
instruments operating in God's laws intelligently, 
lovingly, justly. They are cleansing their minds in 
God's ever flowing fountain of Natural life. 

Oh, Natural Life! How sweet, how tender its 



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life as it sings in the ear of man and throbs in his 
soul, and speaks in the silent language of emotion, 
and tells him of the higher life. We behold the 
souls that are uplifted through the influence of one 
mind through the teachers who unselfishly labor that 
light and truth and strength and wisdom may be 
given to mankind. 

Through this new unf oldment are they led back to 
the beautiful heights of normal, natural conscious- 
ness, a living answer given you — and you who have 
assisted these souls are given the reflex action of their 
prayerful gratitude for your help. As you look and 
see those minds they reflect as the image of one mind 
to you and as you look still further you see what mind 
has not been conscious of, yet through it as far as 
sight can see, as far as spirit mind can behold, are 
the beautiful visions of your inner sight. 

The mind expands through the return that results 
from this consecration to the call of humanity, to the 
brother's love that has been given from you to all the 
unfortunate brothers and sisters, for all your service 
in bringing them back into the wiser ways of the 
higher unf oldment. 

In this way mind is made still stronger, still larger, 
still kinder, still more loving, more tender, more sym- 
pathetic because the great mind center of the universe 
has sent back the vibratory waves of tender loving 
messages, and mind seems born anew unto the more 



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loving principles of the Great Positive Mind. It is 
nearer the great central truth, nearer the great bal- 
ancing power, nearer the great mystery of so-called 
intelligence that gives every man the rightful position 
and whose principles of justice are the ever operating 
laws to develop the individuality that rightfully and 
naturally belongs to every one. 

Mind is more beautiful than tongue can tell. It 
is throbbing with God's love. It is inter-wrapped 
with the kindred-ship of souls. It is bathing in the 
highest and noblest principles — and because of this 
new conception, a new birth is added to the vibratory 
power of mind. 

Mind can never be fully explained. 

Mind can never be fully explored. 

It responds to unspeakable growth in every soul. 

It inherits this immortal constitution at birth. 

The great spiritual centers reflect this knowledge 
to every soul, that they may know all things, and that 
they may see all things. Mind can think, and know, 
and realize more than it can ever place upon the 
material brain, and the mind that lives within this 
higher consciousness is the mighty gateway of indi- 
vidual resource. Even the mind that has lived in 
the lower expressions becomes through the purifying 
processes of its own principles through God's life in 
natural law the most beautiful instrument that can be 
conceived. 



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It can never die. It is life itself. It is the avenue 
that gives expression to life. It is the mental factor 
of thought that is molding the universe. Its portals 
are illumined by the highest and most beautiful life 
processes of the great natural light Deity. 

It is the divine gateway of imperishable truth. 
There are no heights nor depths so wonderful but 
that the new-born thought enters in, and through 
mind's realization shall the needy souls be brought to 
this higher consciousness of God's throbbing love that 
lives so kindly, so justly, so powerfully, so wisely 
for the children of His life, from the beginning 
throughout eternity. 



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CHAPTEK VIII. 
THE WILL OF THE MIND, 

The will of the mind is an ever active, ever endur- 
ing principle that holds within its life the determina- 
tion to express itself. Thus it is the operating power 
of wisdom. It is a building principle for strength 
and position. It is ever eager to have possession. It 
is so finely constructed, so capable of growing in 
power, it is so rich in its wonderful endowments 
through nature's laws, that progress and unfoldment 
must ever be the ultimate response of the individual 
to this Deific principle. 

Man is continuously making conditions that the 
will is also responding to, because man's life is free. 
His birthright is freedom. But the soul is ever im- 
pressing the thought with the principles of right and 
the knowledge of wrong, even though it allows man 
his freedom, for this is a necessity to individualize 
and establish individual character. Because of this 



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freedom man has not realized nor valued his position 
in the great universe, and therefore disregards his 
responsibility, his welfare and his true development. 
He has lived selfishly, sluggishly, according to his 
narrow conceptions, and of ttimes has fallen victim to 
the conditions and circumstances that surround him. 
In such a superficial life the will-power of the mind 
is dragged down into the conditions of materialism, 
and the beautiful attributes of the mind that were for 
its constructive and up-building processes have been 
reversed and have aided the individual in his career 
of ignorance and selfishness. 

As we have said, the mind is of such justice and 
faithfulness and sympathy that it responds to the 
condition thrust upon it, and ever reflects this back 
on the individual. This is why we say "There is no 
evil, seek not to make it," — because every faculty of 
the mind is constructed for growth and unfoldment 
and for the up-building of high and ennobling spirit- 
ual expression. Man should allow his thoughts to 
roam in Nature and be instructed by that wisdom, 
and realize his value and his obligations and his great 
possibilities; and leave narrowness and ignorance, 
and the materialism that seems easier than the pro- 
ficience that results from the soul's monitions toward 
right living. 

Life should never be trifled with — its justice is 
absolutely righteous, and the will of the mind is 



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filled with the enduring principles and everlasting 
desires to carry out consistently everything that the 
life of the individual manifests, and it can be dragged 
down by wrong inclinations and perverted by the 
superficial values that ignorance puts upon selfish- 
ness. The beautiful powers and principles for prog- 
ress and knowledge are used for the furtherance of 
an obstructed life. 

The will thus acts naturally to carry to any 
extreme the good and the evil that has been imprinted 
upon the desire of the individual. All the principles 
in the universe are constructed for good that man 
may make his life larger, kinder, happier by these 
natural principles that in their action vibrate in the 
soul and mind. They give man that which he most 
loves. He is free and independent and responsible 
as to his choice in operating this beautiful instru- 
ment, and he needs his fullest ability under normal 
living to understand how to operate the will most 
successfully. 

It is only natural that man should attract and hold 
the conditions he is in harmony with, and if he is on 
the lower plane, if the throttle was reversed from 
right to wrong, this responsibility must be faced by 
mankind, and not attributed to the principles of the 
mind nor the will. To blame the mind or the will is 
cowardly, for its constitution is that of purity, and it 
is ever speaking and trying to impress on the brain 



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its beautiful life and power. The soul is ever radiat- 
ing with spirit principles and in the silence points 
out the upward way, and the far-reaching principles 
aid all individuals in their recovering of the true path 
and when they are ready, start them afresh. 

This proves that the individual must be willing to 
progress in the higher unf oldment of the will. It is 
impossible for any one to become a master mind and 
operate in the laws of life for health, happiness, and 
power until as an individual he is placed upon his 
own responsibility, and responds willingly, normally, 
naturally, wisely, to Deity's laws. 

Then the mind asserts its power as a free-born 
factor and can expand and progress in the rightful 
strength of all the natural forces. Then is the will 
of the mind a great motive power, that cannot longer 
be dwarfed nor held back by ignorance and narrow 
limitations nor injustice. 

So man must awaken within himself, and open the 
desires toward an understanding and a harmonization 
of self with the universe of life. Then will right 
results follow. If the will has been used selfishly, 
then must it be turned lovingly and kindly to the 
gateway of your heart, so that it may enter in and 
direct your unselfishness and envelop you in its high 
principles, and work out the constructive progression 
of your life. It will lead to unseen truths. It will 
grow and unfold in Wisdom, Love and Power. It 



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will sweeten life with divine principles. It will con- 
tinually reach out to guide you from the valleys, and 
lead you to the heights of God's freedom and your 
own natural inheritance of liberty. You will then 
find the will of the mind a loving guide helping you 
in all your efforts, giving you strength and courage. 
It gives a different individuality. It holds you 
responsible, and makes you victor over yourself — over 
your ignorance and misunderstanding of Nature. 

You have become wise through its voice of silence, 
its unspoken monitions. You have learned of the 
will through the beautiful principles in the Universe. 
Through its strength and courage and determination 
you have pressed on and have become free to unfold 
in all its radiations, and you must live in freedom 
and understand its laws, in order to obtain the results 
you desire. 

It has placed you before the bar of justice of your 
own life, and you have learned what is right and what 
is wrong. 

The will of the mind is God loving ever ready to 
respond to the right. It is ever just in its percep- 
tions of beauty. It is sufficient to give man a new 
revelation of life, and envelop you with the deific 
principles that live within it, and ever radiate life 
and power to all mankind. 



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CHAPTER IX. 

MASTERY OF MIND. 

Mastery of Mind can only be obtained through 
individual effort that works in harmony with individ- 
ual power, harmonizing with the mind in its deter- 
mination to become a master mind. This is assist- 
ing the individualized life that has been developed, 
and bnilded and more wisely directed by the under- 
standing of Natural law that has been taught in the 
previous lessons given upon the mind. 

It has been explained in these lessons that lives 
are not to be lived uniform with certain established 
systems or forms that have grown through man's 
arbitrary dictation or by his imperfect conceptions 
of law, but that lives must be unfolded naturally so 
that each individual shall develop harmoniously and 
wisely in accord with his own natural characteristics. 
Then each person will be as Nature intended as a 
seed of life in the constructive plan of Deity that 



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should unfold so it would be seen and known for just 
what it is and for just what part it is to express in 
this great plan of life. 

Then can it be plainly understood upon what plane 
of life different individuals are vibrating, and their 
position, and their characteristics will be understood, 
and in this natural unfoldment the inner life will 
blossom as Nature intended it without dwarfing and 
without blight. These individual expressions will 
be as easily recognized as are the different flowers in 
a garden, and their qualities, their beauties, will be 
as distinct and as discernible, and as appropriate in 
their position and usefulness and loveliness. 

This makes plain the necessity of individualism, 
and the free development of individual qualities and 
characterstics according to the vibratory forces. 

A soul vibration is a soul vibration, a mind vibra- 
tion is a mind vibration, and a physical vibration is 
a physical vibration, yet in the individual develop- 
ment each person unfolds his characteristics in tone, 
in color, in clearness, in sweetness, in delicacy, and 
in the same varied power that is in accord with his 
vibratory force, and this determines his qualities, his 
condition, and his development. 

This knowledge should teach people to exercise a 
greater consideration for the sacredness and the 
beauty of each individual life, and it should sweep 
away the prejudices, the jealousies, the unkindnesses 



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that exist among persons, and should help them to 
realize that one life is never an infringement on 
another life, for they are all varied in quality, in 
wisdom, and power, and all these expressions result 
from cause and effect in each life. 

This must be recognized and understood and main- 
tained before the first step can be taken in the 
mastery of the mind. One life is just as important 
as another, each life has its own purposes, its own 
duty, its own place, its own unf oldment, in the uni- 
verse, and no one can take the work of another or be 
responsible for another — each must fulfill his own 
destiny and each must work out his own life accord- 
ing to the principles and laws in Nature. 

In attending to one's own life it leaves no time nor 
desire to dictate to another, to interfere with any 
unf oldment, or to break or make any other life. 

The mastery of the individual is the result of 
personal effort, a determination of the will of the 
mind to express only the ennobling qualities, to 
vibrate in the refined and powerful expressions, to 
surge onward and upward in all that which charac- 
terizes the higher unf oldment and thus to walk hand 
in hand, heart to heart, soul to soul most lovingly in 
all these deific love elements of mind. 

This harmonization will express itself normally 
and naturally to the world, and will be an incentive 



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to other individuals to attain this mastery of mind 
and unfoldment of character. 

In this beautiful individualization all others can 
respond in the true spirit, and through the inner soul 
sight can see the beauties that surround and enfold 
and sweeten the atmosphere of each other. These 
are the God given laws and it is this development 
that gives the proper conditions by which each indi- 
vidual may effectually work out the strength and 
manifest the light that is in every life. 

When the world awakens to these natural truths, 
and when man's inner vision is opened to the light 
then there will be no more question as to what man 
should do or be, but he will be made conscious of 
what he is, of his duty, and of the powers and qual- 
ities of his own mind, and of the rights of all man- 
kind, and he will be given the truth and his own 
hungry mind will be fed by all that is beautiful 
spiritually, mentally and physically. This must 
surely result when man is conscious of his own 
psychic center, for in that is the spark that is alive 
to all truth and can see into all laws and can under- 
stand all principles and know the right and the 
wrong, and can unfold to the individual more wisdom 
than he has time for in this material existence. It 
will answer all the questions man can ask, and is a 
natural part of the mind yet unknown, but is kindred 



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with that which has been called the "spark of life" 
that is within the soul. 

This reveals what man is. This inner life, this 
spark is revolving in the mind with such high and 
wonderful vibratory force that the material brain 
has not discovered its presence. But as it reveals 
itself more and more to the character that is becom- 
ing more individualized in the psychic unfoldment 
the mind becomes conscious of this consciousness, and 
feels the vibratory forces that are filled with the 
wisdom of God's universe, and understands its uses, 
and becomes more and more in likeness to it. 

This individual character is won step by step from 
the lowest place in life up to the highest — from the 
depths of sorrow and bitter tears up to the radiant 
glory of God's sunshine and love. 

This salvation must be worked out in accordance 
to the deific plan, and power, through the assistance 
of the soul and this spark of life that is in the mind. 
The individual always retains his own personal 
characteristics, and to just the degree of his under- 
standing of these laws, can he work out his salvation 
through these purifying processes, and thus make 
use of the limitless powers and possibilities that live 
in him and that interblend the force of his body, 
mind, and soul, for the mastery of mind. 

This spark of life is filled with limitless principles, 
but it is only as you understand this, and how to use 



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these powers that your own personal characteristics 
and life as an entity can consciously absorb the 
essences in the varied elements and use your powers 
for the constructive purposes of life. 

The severe experiences of the past have been 
lessons that are written in indelible language and as 
you have passed through the fiery processes of mate- 
rial life and come into the beauty of the higher 
progressive development, and realize its delicacy, its 
beauty, its powers, and its principles, then you enter 
into the true spirit of harmonization with the deific 
life through your higher faculties. 

This cannot be given you — it is free according to 
Deity's plan, yet it is only through the strenuous 
experiences of the material life that your soul con- 
sciousness brings you into an awakened condition 
whereby you are made aware of the treasures within 
your own mind. Then are you determined to gain 
this power, this truth, this unfoldment, this mastery 
over the things that are less advanced and that are 
inferior to your mind. 

Let me impress upon you that mastery of mind 
does not mean getting hold of something that is 
already made and is waiting for you as a treasure 
held in a safe for you to break into and steal — 
impossible ! It is only by individual effort, and by 
the truth that refers you to all of the deific principles 
that express themselves in Nature and in Natural 



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law from the smallest manifestation to the highest 
soul power, it is only through this understanding and 
this effort to make yourself an individual part of the 
great mastery that lives within all things, that is the 
life of the mind, that you can work out from the 
darkness and ignorance of materialism and supersti- 
tion and weakness and become an enlightened, free, 
superior character in likeness unto the natural life 
that waits expression in the soul. 

Then are you a part of this power, this mastery of 
self, this loving life that is living in the intelligence 
of the natural mind. Then have you become the 
rightful owner, the heir to this position. You have 
gained it by right living, by right principles, and 
this mastery is a part of you and you are a part of 
it. You are not dipping out of a fountain this God 
power as you would take water from a well, but you 
have been cleansed through the power of development 
and have made yourself in oneness with power. 

You are not dealing with borrowed strength, nor a 
loaned principle, but you are dealing with yourself, 
with what you are and with what is yours. So it is 
absolutely natural for you to be a master of your 
mind and have mastery of mind. The mind wel- 
comes you — you bathe in its loving principles, you 
work with its power, you sing with its harmonies, 
you awaken to the truth that this was not something 
outside of you, belonging to some one else, but it was 



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yours for yon, when you unfolded to the conception 
of it. 

This is a fulfillment of the law of mind, and you 
find yourself at the center of your soul consciousness 
looking out of illumined windows that are radiant 
by deific principles. As each law of mind is worked 
out, you are mentally expanding and are seeing 
through different eyes, and hearing through different 
ears, and sensing more deeply than ever before, and 
understanding that every law of the mind must be 
fulfilled by you before you are living in all parts of 
the mind, instead of only in one faculty. 

The mind then being expanded by all its principles 
into full capacity is limitless — for then there are no 
lines nor walls nor boundaries nor obstacles. All 
these are removed by the Mastery of Mind. There 
are no vacant chambers, but the mind is fully fur- 
nished, equipped, and made useful. Then is the 
individual in onement with self. 

Until you reach this mastery you have not 
developed the natural faculties to their full possibil- 
ities, and you cannot be a full individual until you 
reach these heights, until you have cleared the battle- 
field of opposition and offending conditions, and the 
mind has become harmonious by its perfect adapta- 
tion to every principle of body, mind, and soul, and 
there is perfect interblending of all the life forces 



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and elements. Then only can you fulfill your posi- 
tion and your mission. 

Every individual is called into this experience 
and does not reach the rightful attainment until 
awakened to the responsibility of his larger develop- 
ment, and thus enters into the beautiful home of his 
own life and becomes its living guest. Every one 
has all the principles, all the elements to work with, 
and by becoming an ardent worker, unselfish in 
power, then the mastery of mind stands for all that 
is natural, and you will be welcomed by the spark of 
life into this companionship of mind. 

The soul that gained this receives back a fuller 
development, as a return is sent from the others whose 
development you have aided. 

I sense upon my soul consciousness a thought of 
rejoicing from the unseen entities, because of this 
explanation of the Mastery of Mind. Thus many 
minds are open to receive assistance and truth, and 
be made larger and stronger as each degree of dark- 
ness is dispelled. 

The beauties and powers and love elements of 
mind strengthen, beautify, etherealize the whole 
atmosphere and make all life more in likeness to 
spirit power. 

It influences all minds, and what has seemed to 
be dark is made light, and what could not be inter- 
preted has been explained, and what could not be 



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comprehended is fully comprehended by this fulfill- 
ment of mastery in itself. Such a mind has no ques- 
tion to ask that cannot be answered, because every 
obstructing thing has been discontinued, and the 
superficial no longer burdens nor oppresses the indi- 
vidual. There is no portion of the mind given over 
to injurious oppositions, and the individual looks 
deeper and higher. 

Then the pulsations of God's great mind are 
sensed in the heart throbs, and the scales of life 
weigh most carefully every thought, and act, and 
condition, and give the exact balance. 

You are then conscious of every beat, every throb 
of the universe. You are listening and living in the 
central faculties of God's universe, seeing with God's 
eyes, because you view with the inner sight ; knowing 
with God's faculties because you are living in the 
wisdom of the mind. The brain is becoming larger 
through the greater uses of the mind, and it builds 
more cells, under more refined conditions, to answer 
to the call of development of mind. 

The brain itself becomes a more sensitive instru- 
ment, finer in tone, more ethereal in structure, 
responsive to the higher aspirations of mind. 

The portals of the soul have been widened and 
made larger and brighter by this expansion of mind. 
Thus we find a larger being, a larger character in 
body, mind, and soul, because the laws and princi- 



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pies have been fulfilled and every attribute of mind 
has assumed its rightful natural position. 

You respond to the grief, and sadness that comes 
to you from the valleys, and you realize that many 
times you have slipped and fallen, and have many 
stripes on your body which tell of suffering, and 
desperate efforts, and conditions of ignorance. 

Many still would hold you back, but you have now 
your freedom, and your atmosphere is that of 
liberty to self, and the freedom of every individual 
consciousness. You need not live as your less pro- 
gressed brother or sister would have you, but advance 
consistently as an enlightened individual, guided by 
the spark within that is illuminated by the days of 
God's light and love and wisdom. You have found 
the truth, and now know the full development, and 
whereof you speak. You fulfill the laws of life 
according to your progression. Time and eternity 
hold limitless possibilities and expansion in this 
absolute power and centralization. 

It is a baptism in the fountain of God's truth 
whereby your soul and mind are relieved of all its 
obstructions and densities. Then there is no more 
sleeping at the post, but a standing in the beautiful 
tabernacle of mind, illumined, decorated, radiated 
by spiritual principles, with all that is charitable, 
with all that is peace, quiet, truth, and justice, and 
through this beaming light you look out into the 



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world as a centralized character consecrated to truth. 
In this beautiful home of heaven which you have 
now you will stand powerful in the peace of God 
and say "I demand peace on earth, and good will to 
men !" 



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CHAPTEE X. 
MIND THROUGH MATTER. 

The master mind is conscious of every law of mind, 
and has now the proper position and rightful condi- 
tion to enter into the physical organism through the 
avenue of the brain, and thus raise the bodily condi- 
tion from weakness to strength, that it may have its 
rightful share in life of God's blessings that are 
appreciated through the mind. 

When the physical body is allowed to wander in 
the paths of darkness and loneliness and depression, 
it is then robbed of its justice, and it is in vain to 
try to win the mastery of mind so long as the physical 
organism is deprived of its beautiful expressions 
designed for it by God's love. Mind through Matter 
opens the divine gateway of God's love that the 
spiritual principle may penetrate and radiate the 
physical being with true spiritual illumination and 
power, that life, light and truth may be deposited 



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throughout the whole organism, and that the material 
structure will be directed and nourished by the mind 
that has become conscious of the divine laws, and 
thus enter into its rightful inheritance. 

Mind has held the inner, living intelligence 
through all earthly experiences, and has suffered 
much at the hands of the wilful and undeveloped 
mind and borne up under physical pain, depression, 
sadness, injustice even, until it has ofttimes become 
dwarfed and crippled as it has been forced into the 
materialistic pathways and dragged by ignorance and 
selfishness into unwise purposes. 

It is neither just nor fair to ask any individual to 
give up the beauties of God's Natural order of life. 
The material organism is the vehicle through which 
the inner man expresses himself. This material 
body is destined for but a few seasons, and why 
should we not reach out with open arms to embrace 
the protecting principles that are God's gift — prin- 
ciples that bring mastery of mind and that elevate 
the material organism. 

This atmosphere, and this plane of living are in 
likeness to the conditions that live in the mind, and 
it is only by obedience to their laws that mind, body, 
and soul are harmonized. It is only by living in 
this likeness that you prove yourself worthy the true 
conditions. 

The physical organism responds to the call of the 



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spiritually developed mind and becomes sensitive to 
and conscious of the God-like spark that lives within 
the mind, and that acts upon the brain cells, the 
tissue, the atoms of the physical structure, and 
absorbs all of the principles that God has so divinely 
placed in life, for health, happiness, and eternal sun- 
shine. 

This guides one into His beautiful garden of the 
higher principles of pleasure that are living upon the 
plane of the mastery of mind. The whole body 
becomes more refined, more etherealized, more sensi- 
tive, cleansed of the coarser things of materialism 
and the lower existence, and is spiritualized through 
the spiritualization of the soul's radiation through 
mind and becomes in oneness with the Mastery of 
Mind. 

The imprints of past reflections, the shadows of 
suffering, the hardships of ignorance pass away as 
the body is elevated in its knowledge and receives 
the privileges of its birthright. It is sustained, 
loved, nourished, and purified, by the waters of God's 
loving truth. It is as willing to respond to this 
transformation as was the mind when illumined by 
principles that are supreme in the universe. The 
superficial conditions always yield to that which is 
truly powerful, and this is the salvation of the race, 
the curative for the coming generations. This will 
sweep away the injuries that reflect upon the mind 



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and body the results of injurious living, whether 
upon the individual or upon the coming generations, 
and this is the only way that truth can reach the 
world, and prove its own power to elevate life above 
the dangerous, the ignorant, ways, and place man- 
kind in the path of progression — for progression is 
the only means of the harmonization of spirit and 
matter. Spirit always exists on a higher plane, 
regardless of physical life, while mind is the agent 
to guide matter up the way of true progression that 
it may hear with spiritual ears, see with spiritual 
eyes, think with the spiritual mind and be in oneness 
with itself as an individual, at oneness with all that 
for which it was designed by infinite intelligence, 
and live in the universe as a creature fitted to enjoy 
the high privileges that are enfolded in the constitu- 
tion of every living being and realize the wisdom and 
strength and love that is given by this mastery of 
mind through matter. 

Thus we become conscious of the truth that there 
is only one rightful way to express the rights and 
privileges of this life, and that is as Nature teaches. 

Some parents do not allow children to ask ques- 
tions, but command them to be silent, so through fear 
the little ones do not gain their rights nor privileges, 
but yield to those who assume authority of judgment 
over them. So instead of a God fearing child, it is 
a mortal fearing child, and though silenced it is 



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deprived of the knowledge that is rightful and such 
parents or teachers have succeeded in stifling God's 
life from expressing itself in the child. 

Mortal fears are the most disturbing obstacles in 
the world, and instead of this we should fulfill the 
law by reaching out with open arms to embrace the 
child and ask his wants and consider his tender 
unf oldment of mind and body, and illumine the little 
soul with the wisdom that will cause it to love and 
lean toward that which it is conscious of as more 
beautiful and natural to its life. 

The true way is to embrace matter with open arms, 
with a God-loving, spiritual consciousness through the 
mind to uplift it and to instruct it as to the superficial 
things it may ask for in place of the sustaining and 
strengthening and enduring benefits it may gain, and 
thus lift the physical organism into the higher con- 
sciousness of the true and beautiful life so that it 
learns to respond lovingly without opposition or 
dissatisfaction. Then the higher power in mankind 
will manifest itself throughout the whole organism 
till body, mind, and soul are interblended and power- 
ful and the mastery of mind is supreme. It no 
longer asks for the useless, the injurious, and the 
unwise, but it understands the true and the beautiful 
and the natural and tenderly joins its life with all 
that is larger and nobler in the mind, and like an 



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innocent child looks to its protecting love for guid- 
ance, and reposes confidently in its sheltering care. 

This is mastery of mind through matter, and the 
plane of true life building processes is well estab- 
lished. Through this flows the limitless power of 
God's wisdom, and interblends with this organism to 
correct all physical weakness, and sustain the mate- 
rial body, and raises it from disturbing hereditary 
tendencies and bring it into the arms of love and 
peace and wisdom. Then the physical and the men- 
tal and the spiritual are at onement, and the mind 
will not have to keep teaching the physical organism 
each day, and each year — but the interblending and 
harmonious relationship is such that the whole 
organism moves naturally with the mind in its 
spiritual efforts, and is no longer a babe to be 
guarded, and guided, and sustained but has come 
into a oneness of its own, and is a true companion of 
the three in one while in the earthly expression. 

This is the God-like plan of life. This is the 
natural expression through Nature's laws in response 
to God's manifestation for progressive unfoldment 
and growth. 

This life is fitted to live under all normal and 
natural conditions as Deity lovingly intended, and is 
able to express and manifest through its organisms 
the life that makes them fitted to become fathers and 
mothers of offspring, giving to the little ones proper 



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conditions and influences that they may be guided 
into the higher and better things in God's Garden of 
Life, without so much suffering, and misery, to 
awaken them to the truth. 

This is the salvation of the race! This is the 
education of the mind. This is its manifestation 
through matter. Other minds will respond to the 
truth and live naturally, so that the world will no 
longer be in darkness but will be conscious of its 
possibilities for growth and enter into the inheritance 
prepared by Deity from the beginning. 

God has not set himself apart from man, but man 
has lived aside from God. So the light and love and 
truth have not pierced his dense mind, and his selfish 
ignorance has not been broken down. 

The world will be uplifted to the consciousness of 
these spiritual principles through mind in matter as 
it swings in harmony with God's progressive life. 
This is in direct opposition to the way life is now lived, 
for mind is swinging in harmony with the lower 
attributes of man's superficial and materialistic life 
and ambitions. With this beautiful unfoldment of 
mind through matter the whole world will be glorified 
by the principles of higher living, which is absolutely 
normal and natural in its expression. 

The harmonious relationship and interblending of 
such lives in this material world will unfold the 
beauty and fragrance of truth and power until the 



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atmosphere will be impregnated by the principles of 
spirituality, and the world will become a garden of 
peace and love. 

There will be no incentive for abnormal life, no 
love of false power, the densities will be swept away, 
and the coarseness that man has made, will be refined 
and transformed. The delirious pictures in the mind 
will be gone never to return, and the rights of men 
and women will no longer be stolen. Men and 
women will enter into the true heritage of life. 

There will be honesty and truth, for the mind then 
has nothing but honesty and truth to offer. You will 
be strong and sustained because these are the attrib- 
utes of life. You will be luminous because you are 
a light in the world. 

Through the mastery of mind through matter you 
share with all souls on your plane, and recognize the 
spark of good in all. 

You are the pillars in the structure of the universe, 
cemented with God's loving principles that flow from 
mind through matter. 

This leads men to the fountain of wisdom, and 
truth will solve every question that will ever be asked. 
The gateway of heaven is thus opened, and from the 
centers of the universe will flow limitlessly into the 
mind and soul, permeating them continually, the love 
building elements that exist in greater refinement in 
the higher planes of life. 



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Mind reflects from the soul into matter God's 
untarnished truth, and mind responds to this law — 
not as the ignorant and selfish would wish, not as 
the fashionable would dictate, not as the ambitious 
would have it to suit their purposes, but as the law 
of life has created it, free through the principles of 
unfoldment. The light of Mind will shine unfixed 
by any human mind or material brain, because it is 
made in likeness unto the great mind and this truth 
expresses itself in its own likeness and mind develops 
its own principles. 

This life steadfast in truth makes the harmony 
and strength that must be held forth to the world to 
teach and guide it. Then the spiritual faculties look 
into the unseen, for this unfoldment makes the indi- 
vidual a conscious co-operator with the angels, and is 
a harmonious force in power, wisdom, love, and truth, 
individualized in these principles. Such powers 
cannot be understood nor used until you are individ- 
ualized in them, then you know what materialized 
man does not know, you sense what mortal man does 
not sense, and you love and live as a being harmonized 
in body, mind, and soul, a part of the infinite plan, 
giving justice to your own organism and justice to 
every soul, fulfilling the laws of truth. 

Then will the unspeakable chapter in your life be 
fulfilled. Your wisdom and power will be felt, even 
without the mortal lips' expression; your radiant 



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force will be felt even without the attempt to express 
it. 

Every power and principle is individualized in 
your character and you thrill with life that is felt 
by the world, because you have lived the mastery of 
mind in matter — and have mastery of body and mind. 

No longer is material life an obstacle; no longer 
will be the message of "Mind over matter" ; no longer 
will you find that matter is depressing and weak, for 
you have etherealized it through God's laws of life, 
and lifted it to the higher plane, nearer the deific 
centers of purifying truth, and made it a glorious 
garment, beautiful with all the unspeakable language 
of the unknown. 

The physical body is placed in its true position, and 
is ready to take up its work in life. It is warm with 
God's love, thrilled with God's sympathy, glorified 
with God's justice, unfolded in the inner life, har- 
monized, adjusted, and is made a saviour unto itself, 
and a helper to all mankind. 



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CHAPTEE XL 
THE INDIVIDUALIZED MIND. 

The Individualized Mind embodies spirit princi- 
ples and powers, these are the foundations of all 
spiritual law. Spiritual principles are living things 
throughout the universe ; they hold within themselves 
the beautiful essences of God's wonderful powers and 
limitless expressions that man has for centuries looked 
upon with respect, and yet he has never individual- 
ized these principles in their true meaning, but has 
been trying to operate them as some outside ma- 
chinery to meet the demands of an undeveloped, 
unindividualized mind. 

The unfavorable results are perfectly natural under 
such unreasonable, immature conditions. God's 
laws and spirit principles cannot be understanding^ 
operated by the mind until it has become individual- 
ized by these powers and principles, and until these 
powers and principles themselves are individualized, 



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they may well he considered as of outside influence. 
And while all things are possible in these principles 
and powers yet they are not available to the mind 
that has not come into recognition of their truths 
and qualities and uses. 

We see the absolute necessity of harmonizing spirit 
principles and powers through an individualized pro- 
cess that makes these powers and principles a con- 
scious part of the mind, and in return makes the 
person an individualized entity in mind. 

Even the laws which seem simple to us, the har- 
mony and interblending of forces and powers and 
faculties are important and necessary in order to 
obtain any result in operating the principles for 
harmony of body, mind, and soul. 

Spiritual principles live both in the seen and the 
unseen, and are born in the unfoldment of God's 
expression in the character of great lives in the seen 
and the unseen. They are the living powers of the 
universe. 

Our solar system, the sun, the atmosphere, are 
radiating these life giving principles and powers. 
The spheres of the higher life are held in the ethereal 
atmosphere of these principles and powers. All 
planes, all planetary bodies, all life, all systems are 
held and controlled by the same principles and 
powers. The luminous vibrations of the soul are but 
the essences of these powers and principles that are 



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the superior conditions of life, and the divine in- 
fluences freely offered to all mankind — and we ask 
the world how much of these principles and powers 
has it embodied in the lives of people, in customs, in 
institutions, in government, in civilization, to work 
out through the individual methods a system in indi- 
vidual life through which these powers and principles 
themselves have become individualized in character, 
and become as living entities expressing individual- 
ized spirit principles and powers in the mind! 

To just the degree these principles have been indi- 
vidualized in the lives of people, and to just the 
degree that their spiritual consciousness has made 
them the mental factors in their life and in the uni- 
verse, can good use be made of such principles and 
powers. 

The reason for this is that the individual has no 
power over any condition, nor is he able to harmonize 
with any condition without first individualizing the 
principles and powers. 

What is it to individualize these principles ? It 
is to make them a part of your conscious life and 
volition. Principles are the laws and expressions of 
Deity. They are the truths of the universe. They 
are in you, but you know them not! They are the 
natural concealed by the unnatural — and until you 
distinguish between the true and the superficial, the 
truth does not become a part of your consciousness. 



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These principles are awaiting their true interpreta- 
tions, that they may become the rightful powers of 
life. The electricities of the atmosphere were of no 
use until mind was opened to their principles and 
powers of action and so it is with the finer powers of 
spirit, they await the awakening of mankind to a 
realization of their life values in universal develop- 
ment. 

While man remains within the plane of selfishness, 
superstition, and ignorance, he cannot make use of 
these principles and powers, for they are unknown to 
him, and so are outside his life, and no avenue is 
made whereby they may be brought into connection 
with the mind. 

This expresses weakness. This explains failure. 
This shows why civilization is yet uncivilized, and 
tells why here and there an individual has seemed so 
superior to the world in which he lives. 

Men generally may consider themselves as crafty 
and wise, but they are victims of their own deceit. 
It is only by becoming a part of the Divine Mind, by 
consistently inviting these spirit principles into one's 
life, by engrafting these powers into the mind, by 
loving truth and expressing it through the soul, that 
results can ever be given the world, for it is only in 
this way that wisdom takes seed and bears fruit. 

Then men will no longer try to get that which is 
counterfeit, they will no longer worship the power 



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that seems mighty and claims mastery but which is 
a mockery of God's principles and powers. 

When you have individualized a principle that 
holds within itself a wonderful power, then you have 
made it a part of yourself as an individual, and that 
principle and power will manifest itself through your 
organism, and express itself to the mind, and the 
mind expresses itself to the world in the character- 
istics of your own personal individuality. This is 
harmonizing with God's principles and powers on a 
high plane of individualization of mind. 

Be as you may in your expression in this high type 
of character through your own personal vibratory 
laws, you have individualized and unfolded a spirit- 
ual character, a power that is the blossom of your 
soul's expression through the mind. 

Those who are in this larger expression are often 
sensitive and seemingly alone, but they are in the 
constant companionship and in co-operation with the 
teachers of the higher life, and have opened the 
avenue for communication between themselves and 
the advanced, harmonious minds, and are valued for 
their individualized mind and character, — for the 
same truth is vibrating upon the same planes both in 
the seen and the unseen spheres of life. 

If the world does not understand this, it is the 
world's loss. Whether or not humanity chooses to 
accept these spirit principles and powers and become 



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a part of them in this life or in the next is a question 
for humanity to decide, but sometime, somewhere 
they will be conscious of this truth that is now being 
given on the Individualized powers and principles 
and mind. Then they will have awakened to this 
truth, and will behold it as a living thing. 

Such truths are not popular, and are many times 
clothed in garments of disguise to suit the ignorant 
and selfish minds of individuals who dishonestly trifle 
with God's life and powers, and by such masquerad- 
ing have brought sad and unfortunate results to the 
world. We choose to set forth the truth clothed in 
God's righteousness, radiated by deific powers illu- 
minated by the principles of highest consciousness, 
that the world may not be ignorant but may honestly 
deal with truth, fearlessly, bravely, regardless of 
creed or cult, and manifest to the world untarnished, 
undisguised the fullness of spirit expression as the 
constructive Intelligence of the Universe intended. 
When every individual takes these guiding principles 
and breaks away from fashion and society and 
becomes a conscious life in the universal life, then 
the mind is illumined, radiant, sweetened, and 
purified to the degree that the senses accept such 
principles and powers, and will accordingly manifest 
this inner life as it becomes free from the lower 
environment. 

Such souls will stimulate and inspire and encour- 



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age every soul that comes within their vibration, and 
will make attractive these spirit principles and 
powers. 

This individualized principle cannot be weighed 
or measured by any creed or cult or sect, it cannot be 
valued nor influenced by name, or position or organ- 
ization but must be recognized as an individualized 
entity and characteristic, and such an individual is 
the only one of its kind in the universe, both of the 
seen and unseen. This thought of the distinctiveness 
of each individual is such as to make one bow in 
reverence and love to the great creative force that 
bore each soul, that it could through such powers and 
principles individualize the mind. 

It is only ignorance that misjudges and chastises, 
and that constantly seeks to find errors or mistakes 
in the life of others. The world has not yet individ- 
ualized mind through such spirit powers and princi- 
ples. 

Each will then play his own part perfectly, and 
through such individualization there will be a har- 
mony and oneness that is not possible otherwise. 
Through individualized spirit principles every one 
will be useful and happy, and fulfill his own laws, 
each finding his own place and particular service, and 
live in perfect love and peace and harmony through 
such an adjustment, that can only be brought about 
through individual effort to individualize the mind 



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with individualized spirit principles and powers. Then 
each will come into rightful recognition of all lives, 
and all will be seen and known by such consciousness 
to be beautifully fitted for the special condition he 
occupies in the onward march of civilization. 

The mind has a wonderful capacity to absorb and 
hold its treasures, and it can always expand to a 
limitless degree. 

The manifestation of the harmonized spirit 
through the interblending of the luminous force of 
the soul with the powers of Mind, is ever expressing 
the deific powers and principles, and the knowledge 
has come that people are not to be driven in flocks, 
or weighed by materialistic measures, or named by 
religious associations, or cults, but are to be valued, 
appreciated, and understood for what each individ- 
ual life is in its own rights, in its own individualiza- 
tion, in its own character, in its own truth. 

This one fact, this one truth of individuality,, must 
be understood before there will be any expression of 
love or justice in the world. One mind thus indi- 
vidualized must awaken other minds unto this single 
realization, and possibility for growth as an individ- 
ual in the universe — that there are no two alike, but 
a similar relationship that will blend and interblend 
in God's loving truth and principles, that they may 
embosom these high and glorious truths, and live in 



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a sacred just companionship through this true knowl- 
edge of individual rights. 

Man has separated his many faculties in cold 
intellectual reasoning and brought discord and inhar- 
mony in his life, and this very result seems to prove 
to him that he is correct in his conclusions, — for 
discord and inharmony will always separate the 
faculties and never allow the mind to he open to 
harmonious action and thought. 

When the students of the world realize the truth 
of the deific principles and the individual powers 
then will the reasoning faculties, one after another, 
be brought into harmonious relationship, and then 
will the whole physical organism be adjusted by this 
harmony which now through ignorance and discord 
man has dissected and separated and misunderstood. 

The higher truth and principles heal and cement 
together all parts, and the essences of the spirit prin- 
ciples unite the individual within himself, recon- 
struct society, so that every individual and every 
power shall have its rightful expression, and harmo- 
nious relationships will be established. 

These powers and principles in Mind will become 
the great constructive power which will make the 
universe larger, and will awaken man to the con- 
sciousness of what life really is, and as to what his 
own individual life is — that no one can take another 
one's place. Each soul is needed in its own place, 



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and no other can fill this place. The universe is in 
need of each individual soul and no strength, nor 
power, nor faculty outside that soul can take its 
rightful place. It not only adds to the constructive 
life in the seen, but also in the unseen, making that 
stronger and more brilliant, more truthful, more 
perfect, more conscious, more sensitive, still higher 
in intellectual individualization, and the more fully 
this is realized the more sacred will he the regard 
for every individual from the lowest to the highest. 

Differences will not exist through class distinction 
or intellectual pride, or material or governmental 
sovereignty. Each will have his true place, his true 
consideration, his true justice, and be valued for the 
possibilities contained in his life, and the develop- 
ment that will result as his experience is fulfilled. 

As each one responds to this individualization — 
each place is lovingly and fearlessly filled in the uni- 
verse, and God's great law means more to such a soul 
than ever before, because it is only through such 
individualization that intelligence springs forth, and 
that the mind is individualized by spirit power and 
principles. 

Then the design of the Universe is recognized, 
and through this discerning of life the individual 
expresses power and truth and love and beauty, not 
as a creator, but as a developer and unfolder of God's 
principles and powers through the mind. 



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This character makes its own coloring and light 
and illumines its own life, and gives forth an atmos- 
phere that is purifying to the world, and impregnates 
the densities, thus making a new atmosphere for still 
greater results and for a more glorious expression 
for mankind. 

This same grace has been given by God to every 
individual — even those bound in ignorance and 
slavery in the slums of the universe, and I would 
that the world could understand the truths of indi- 
vidualism and adaptation, that these bonds of slavery 
of every description, forged through all forms of 
ignorance and false authority, could be broken. Then 
indeed would lives be refreshed by truth and by their 
own individual rights, and their own individual 
powers would be given their natural opportunities of 
expansion and expression — none in sameness to 
another, none in obedience to another, but all in their 
own likeness responding to the great powers and prin- 
ciples of God's constructive life through Nature. 

Then the germ of each life .would unfold and give 
to each individual that which is sacred and beautiful 
that no other life has ever had and that no other life 
will ever have. 

Each life is filled with value, beauty and good, and 
by this unfoldment of spirit power and principles of 
individual power and the individualized mind it 
becomes an absolute individualized character and 



OF THE MIND 125 

entity in the world for eternity, to glorify life in 
every plane. And as they graduate from plane to 
plane their co-workers in the earthly life desire to 
retain their instruction, this is freely given, for they 
never forget their less fortunate brothers, and never 
feel it a sacrifice to work for this awakening of indi- 
viduals to the truth of their own individualism. 

The individualized person is welcomed in every 
plane when it is re-born, and lives in all the universe, 
in a more wonderful expansion of individualization, 
and through such unfoldment gives a new individ- 
ualized power to the soul center which comes back 
to the individual as an added power and essence. 

The distinct individualized truth that is different 
from any other has been added to the beautiful, 
delicate love elements and powers of the universe, 
and this gives a new truth in life that is sensed by 
all the world, and that strengthens all the world, and 
these processes are carried on throughout eternity. 

Thus progression is a truth through the individual- 
izing of the mind — and thus is eternal life a truth, 
and has been made possible through the manifesta- 
tion of these powers. 

It is an endless chain of cause and effect, of giving 
and being given in return, of limitless power, untir- 
ing, enduring, life giving, upspringing as a fountain 
of truth, each soul different from any other, each soul 
of different power from any other, each standing 



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face to face on the heights of eternity, each face to 
face with the angels, each recognizing the love ele- 
ments and spirit principles and individuality of each 
other. 

This makes eternity worth while. This places 
every individual in his rightful position. This 
makes a distinct chamber fitted harmoniously operat- 
ing through the spiritual laws of the universe, fulfill- 
ing the laws of the Individualized Mind. 

This is not only yours, but must be freely given by 
you to all humanity, throughout eternity. 

In this progression you reach the heights of your 
own unfoldment and the angels are as glad to come 
and greet you and meet you and to know you, as is 
the one who struggles for your help from below. 
You are known as a new born child that has come 
home — and you show to them a condition in life 
they have never known before. This explains still 
further the great law of the harmonious interblend- 
ing of life, through God's truth as it is individualized 
in the universe in the unseen and the seen, by the 
mortal and immortal, throughout eternity. 



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CHAPTEK XII. 

POWER AND CONTROL OF LIFE. 
SPIRIT PRINCIPLES THROUGH THE MIND. 

Leading upward through the development of 
thought through the laws of the mind, each may 
become centralized by the individualized powers and 
spirit principles which meet the demand of every 
law to establish a complete, well developed individ- 
uality in the mind. 

Thus shall be won for each individual every avenue 
that leads to the soul center from every faculty of 
their being, that there may be complete control of 
every functioning organ through the power and prin- 
ciple of the individualized organism, physically, 
mentally, and spiritually, with such harmonized rela- 
tion of the varied powers and principles that the 
individuality has grown into through the different 
planes of progression, until the powers and principles 



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become a part of the person, and the person a part of 
them. This makes a centralized force, completely 
constructed by the interblending of every life ele- 
ment, which has finally unfolded and amalgamated 
every principle and power and faculty, and has 
become in power and control of that life, physically, 
mentally and spiritually, and is then equal to operate 
God's laws from a right and just point of view. 

The individuality is thus completed, and the life 
is in harmonious realization of Deity's principles, 
and their wisdom has been learned, their principles, 
their character, their power awakens the individuality 
to true wisdom. He is then on a plane in life where 
he controls the laws that have controlled him, and 
lives in harmony, forceful in character, enlarged as 
an individual soul born into the completion of one 
individual entity, individualized in the mind. 

The individualized mind possesses wonderful 
depths, and limitless truths and possibilities, and 
such a mind is an operating influence in any life, 
responding to the welfare of all humanity, for the 
growth and unfoldment of larger power, more char- 
itable conditions. 

The physical organism responds to this forceful 
character that is thus individualized in the mind so 
that it is no longer swayed by the conditions and 
influences of the physical organism or the unfavor- 
able atmospheres of others. Without this individ- 



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ualized mind, life is always hap-hazard without any 
real guiding influence, or protecting powers, and may 
for a long time walk in the downward paths of 
earthly expression before the response comes to the 
powers and principles that have awaited unfoldment. 

But the individualized mind responds to the posi- 
tive laws, and the physical functions obey the powers 
within. 

The life that is operated in response to this law is 
in likeness unto God's life, and manifests this true 
life as teachers and healers through these principles 
so wisely and beautifully prepared for all mankind 
that each may work out his own development, and 
no longer live under the abnormal and superficial 
conditions. 

Nature is the secret of all Natural things that 
lead to the great fountain of God's love life and from 
the center of your own individualized mind you 
give to the world the beautiful truths that all things 
are sacred — that even in the grain of sand which is 
so apparently crude, there is the great principle of 
life, there is the expression that created it to take 
its successive forms and it plays its own part in the 
organic progression of the universe of matter. 

Spirit power and principle are manifest through 
all forms of life, never to be seen by the physical 
eye, and only can unillumined man understand it as 
the outside, material expression, but the unfolded 



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individual character that has gained power and con- 
trol of life can see even in the grain of sand the 
power that brought it to its form, and can understand 
its spiritual significance. 

God's laws are unchangeable and all life rests 
upon them, and unfoldment conies only through pro- 
gression. This must be placed before the vision of 
the ignorant, the unjust, the selfish, the superficial 
lives that gather wealth by depressing humanity and 
by causing others to suffer, and then give of their 
spoils toward public charities that they may seem to 
be benefactors, and thus ease their guilty conscience. 

The deific principles and the angels of the unseen 
will assist every life in its struggle toward the 
natural expression, but the wilfully unjust are 
indulged for a time in their choice, even though it 
means to them greater suffering when they retrace 
their steps and try to recall their injustice. 

God's love must become the power of life, God's 
charity must become the charity of life, God's wisdom 
must become the wisdom of life, and all individual 
unfoldment must be in maintenance of God's truth 
and laws as they relate to every life, every position, 
every condition, and every expression in the Universe. 

Though this is ignored by the ignorant and though 
the individualized character is scorned by the super- 
ficially arrogant mind, yet through the power and 
principle of the greater mind shall their foundations 



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totter and crumble away, and the spirit principle will 
be recognized as the controlling factor in the individ- 
ual life. Results may not seem to come spontane- 
ously or be recognized at once by the unfortunate, 
but the essences can never be destroyed, and if this 
power does not manifest itself today in the hearts of 
men and women it shall begin to speak of its won- 
derful life, and individually shall turn toward the 
teaching and the work that expresses this high and 
beautiful character. Life will reach out to the un- 
folded life, and criticism will be silenced. 

The essence of spirit principle has crept up through 
the ages and the barriers are removed. 

The sequence of life is something that lives and 
moves and breathes in this life of ours. 

It expresses itself on the tinted leaves and unfolds 
in the fragrance of flowers. 

It is unspeakable, yet obtainable, and only through 
the divine wisdom of God's love can words be found 
that will lead man upward to that which cannot be 
expressed but that which he will know and live. 

It is the unspeakable something, the spirit princi- 
ples, the essences of divine power in the universe. 

Through such education, through such expressions, 
will mankind be awakened to such an individualiza- 
tion in spirit principles that the world will under- 
stand that the value of life is not in material power 
or wealth or position, but in a life of principle, a life 



132 SCIENCE AND POWEK 

of justice, a life of truth, a life that meets life face 
to face, a life that wishes to look into the conscious- 
ness of the unfolded souls and become like these. 
This is the truth and life that the world has made a 
mockery of, this is the life that religious people for 
centuries have claimed to live, and they have set us 
this standard according to their own construction of 
truth and life, and have become victims of their own 
ignorance. 

We now come into a wiser relationship with these 
higher faculties, a newer comprehension of spiritual 
truths. We have treasured the wisdom that expressed 
itself in the consciousness of the world's seers and 
philosophers, and realize that Truth has ever mani- 
fested itself to the opened understanding, and that 
visions have always presented themselves to the illu- 
mined mind. And now the gifted psychics are 
getting closer to the realities of life because they are 
the soul seers, and because they are seeing with 
spiritual eyes into the spiritual powers and princi- 
ples, and have been individualizing themselves in 
God's ways and life and truth, and so instead of 
stepping aside from life they recognize the oneness 
of all life, they become universal in the harmonious 
interblending of all God's beautiful principles of 
body, soul, and mind, and they know that the unna- 
tural is not spiritual, and that to gain spiritual wis- 



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dom they must unfold the individual principles and 
characteristics as Nature reveals the truth of life. 

We know that we gain more by living natural, 
normal lives as God intended the individual to live 
in this earthly life and expression, because He governs 
the world by immutable laws that are ever manifest- 
ing their glory and their beauty through the princi- 
ples that have ever existed and will live throughout 
eternity. Step by step must the world advance and 
unfold the individuality and various faculties, func- 
tioning all the individual powers, realizing that what 
seemed a mystery is only the clearness of truth, and 
that the essences and delicacies of the principle that 
moves in the unseen is the Light that through cen- 
turies of time has always guided Life, and always 
will. 

After the consciousness has been awakened to truth 
it can never return to the smaller things of life, and 
enjoy the narrow ways that once seemed true and 
attractive. There is no desire for the backward step, 
and this proves that the unfolded life is the true, the 
right, the real, even though the world is blind to it, 
and inattentive, and uncomprehending ! 

The soul that has left the accustomed paths of the 
superficial where there was so much companionship 
would rather live alone than become a part of that 
which has no realization of the spirit consciousness. 
It is this spirit that speaks in the consciousness in 



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words and tones of love and harmony that illumines 
life and makes the consciousness of more beauty and 
value than anything the world can offer in its place. 

This is the jewel from out God's universe that 
you have gathered and wear as a symbol of light and 
truth. 

Through this unf oldment of every faculty is truth 
gained, and victory won. The battles in material 
life are fought with spiritual weapons, the demons 
are slain, the monsters are met and overcome. 

Thus you have lived, thus you have loved, and thus 
you have won with the wisdom of God's love and have 
become glorified with the sword of tender mercy to 
cut away superficial obstructions — sorrow, misfor- 
tune, evil and injustice, that this eternal spirit prin- 
ciple of light, love and wisdom shall come to shine in 
every life; and though the ignorant regard you as 
their enemy yet you are as God's angels to lead them 
unto the upper rooms of their lives where the light 
pours in, and where Natural life will be established 
and real life will be loved. 

Each shall have freedom according to God's laws, 
according to Natural laws, and not struggle as we 
have. 

Thus we find that the glories and beauties mani- 
fested from the heights are clear to our vision as any 
object in material life ; that to our spiritual conscious- 



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ness there is no obstruction, that we view, hear, sense, 
know God's ways in the universe of life. 

In this unfoldment of the spiritual consciousness 
and illumination of Mind we can answer any ques- 
tion upon any subject at any time, or any place, 
because we are seeing with the wisdom of our own 
soul life. 

We judge not, we condemn not, but we are round- 
ing out the completeness, the oneness of the life 
Deity gives all lives; we are pulsating with every 
principle, every quality of the highest power in the 
universe. 

Life becomes Natural as Deity formed it. Then 
it will not be necessary to remove ignorance from the 
mind by truth, but in coming in touch with Deity in 
Nature the truth will be comprehended as easily by 
Mind, as the child now enters into the life that sur- 
rounds him through the Natural expressions in 
flowers, in trees, in birds, in butterflies and in all 
that attracts the child's attention, and illumines his 
consciousness, and leads him into the beautiful fields 
to play and in his little life become one with the love 
of Nature. 

So will Mind respond to the beautiful tenderness 
that expresses itself in all Natural conditions, and 
will grow and fulfill all the promise contained in 
spirit principle and power. 

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not be a plane of effort, a plane of tears, but will be 
a plane of unfoldment, a plane of glorification, a 
garden of beauty that belongs to the human family. 

The doors are unlocked that were sealed, and 
intelligence and power come forth, and all shall know 
their privileges and that which seemed beautiful to 
their former vision will now seem crude, for they 
now behold the God's expression and are unfolded in 
his love of all life, and are held in the essence of 
spirit principles and life has become sacred and 
glorified in Natural expression. 

This is possible to all, this is universal power, uni- 
versal love, light and life, that has been talked about 
for centuries, and that will be lived in the centuries 
to come, because an individual soul has gained power 
and control through mind. 

These beautiful truths can be reached when the 
door of ignorance is broken, and when freedom and 
liberty of life, when love and justice are recognized 
as the universal principles of Deity for mankind. 

This is immeasurable, inconceivable, limitless, 
boundless, all enduring, manifesting now and 
throughout eternity. 



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CHAPTEE XIII. 
THE UNDEVELOPED MIND. 

The mind is the power that lives between the 
spirit consciousness and the brain. It is the most 
important factor from a physical point of view for 
it is the spiritual adjusting faculty of the body. 

The mind cannot speak to the physical organism 
except through the brain, and the brain is so united 
to this expression of the spirit that the question as to 
whether mind and brain are of the same condition 
and life, or whether they are distinct has long been 
unsettled by the scientist. 

The mind holds the most delicate and sensitive 
position of any of the faculties possessed by the indi- 
vidual. This is the reason why humanity has been 
confused and confounded and unable to gain the key- 
note that shall produce the right vibration to adjust 
the physical, mental, and spiritual life. 

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through the material brain, or by reasoning processes 
that do not include the spiritual consciousness, 
because the balancing power must come from the 
central life itself, and reach the brain and physical 
organism through the mind as it reveals and expresses 
the soul's attributes. 

The outward form of any mechanism does not 
reveal the central power that is within its construc- 
tion, and it cannot be adjusted from the external 
surface, but only from all parts of the mechanism. 
So the brain must be adjusted through the mind, and 
the mind is absolutely just to the material organism 
and to the spiritual powers, but it is helpless to 
receive spiritual powers and principles through the 
soul if it is filled with materialism. 

However beautiful and sympathetic its meaning, 
yet it has been made crude and heavy by its misuse 
and lack of development. 

The mind is a faculty that keeps the record of life 
from birth throughout eternity, but it is kept busy 
and so filled with materialism and superficial things 
that it has not unfolded naturally, but has become 
congested and undeveloped both from physical con- 
ditions and from an unbalanced intellectual point of 
view. 

This has resulted in dwarfing life and crippling it, 
for the real principles of adjustment and power have 
not been understood according to the natural law of 



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the universe, physically and mentally for right living 
or healthy conditions, and for the development of the 
brain that will bring about the freedom of the physical 
organism from the lower wants and desires and habits 
of ignorance. 

It is only through awakening the mind that it can 
become a faculty in life for individualizing in the 
powers and principles of God's life and expression, 
and it is only by appealing to the mind as a central 
power that individual life can be balanced and 
adjusted and become the power and strength that 
shall direct the health and happiness of the whole 
organism. 

Each individual will then find it easy to adjust life 
through the harmonization of mind, soul, and body, 
and by this central, balancing power construct life 
just as each would have it. 

This is the door that for centuries has waited to be 
opened, and man has not found it because he has not 
trusted in the powers that gave him his being, and 
because he has not been unselfish in his search for 
truth. He has not been willing to step away from 
materialism and walk free in wisdom that is of God. 

The exercise of any power strengthens it, and tends 
toward the upbuilding of the individual, whether of 
body, brain, mind, or soul, and while physical results 
are apparently gained through merely physical 
exercise or regard of physical habits and the use of 



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material or mechanical aids, yet the success of this 
development or improvement in health is determined 
by the desire, the concentration, the will power that 
is brought to bear as a fulcrum from the central life 
to lift the organism above its weakness and to accom- 
plish poise, health and endurance. 

The inner life cannot be ignored, neither can the 
outward manifestation be separated from the life 
elements and powers that normally and naturally are 
the controlling realities. 

We have said that the mind keeps every record in 
life and responds to all the acts and deeds done in 
the body and registers these. Thus it is justice in 
itself, returning to the individual all that is in accord 
with the unerring laws of cause and effect. 

These laws are the life of Deity and nothing can 
interfere with their justly operating, because it is 
through Mind that individuality is gained and 
through mind that life is made resourceful, kind 
noble, and powerful. 

Mind tells what you have made of yourself, other- 
wise it would not be a complete faculty. Ignorance 
concerning its powers and principles has made the 
world a victim of ignorance, but some day, after the 
suffering has been severe and long enough there will 
be some one wise enough to lead the way to Natural, 
normal living, and then it will be realized how- nar- 



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row, how dwarfed, how selfish, how unnatural life 
has been made. 

The tender angel of each life has been imprisoned. 
The mind has been sustained and tarnished with all 
that is unjust and cruel. It has been used for per- 
sonal power, for selfish ambition, it has been dragged 
into the gutter of sensualism, or built up to rule the 
unfortunate. Mind then is unjust to all it associates 
with, for it has no education in self justice which is 
the foundation of just regard for others. 

The life that is sent down into degradation reaps 
distress and suffering, and cannot be a fit companion 
physically or mentally to associate with other lives. 
This life engrafts its misery into every life it comes 
in contact with. It poisons the innocent. It trans- 
mits its physical and mental tendencies to its offspring 
and stops not its influence until these unhappy lives 
are brought to the seat of Mans so-called Justice — 
because transgression of Natural laws mark their 
effects upon the unhappy victims. This is the history 
of the ages — this misuse of the mind, until deception, 
violence, cruelty mark every nation, and there is yet 
no civilization in any spot upon the globe. 

The mind holds and transmits this cruelty and 
this selfishness, this wantonness, and this greed. The 
mind unnaturally stimulated by false desires has 
given the physical organism over to the debaucheries 



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of war, of lust, of fanaticism, of arrogance, of intem- 
perance of every description. 

The delicacy of the mind has had no opportunity 
to reveal itself. Its civilizing power has never been 
allowed to speak. 

Only here and there has it broken its material 
bonds, and sung in music and expressed itself in lan- 
guage. Here and there it has lived unto itself in 
its true individualism that it might give its life unto 
others in records of spirit, or prophecy, or science, or 
love — but man generally has used its power unheed- 
ing the still small voice that is lost in the noise of 
the materialistic machinery of the world, and has 
oppressed and intimidated the helpless, and indulged 
his gross appetite for whatever appealed to him most. 

The ambitions write themselves in violence and in 
mental pictures that mean crime unrecognized because 
mans laws do not stigmatize such acts as unstatutory. 
The mind is further demoralized by alcohol, by drugs 
of every description, by gluttony, by narcotics, by 
stimulants, and by crude sports. This atmosphere 
impregnates the atmosphere of mind. 

The weak respond to these conditions, and the 
children of the vicious, the drunkard, the libertine 
become victims of the constitutional weakness that 
prevents the true development of mind in its natural 
and pure unfoldment. 

Thus man abuses his own life, and weakens the 



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faculties of the unborn generation. He has made 
himself a monster lower than a rattlesnake, for that 
serpent gives a warning sound before he strikes. Man 
is secretly poisoning not only his own life but is 
poisoning the very springs of life of the innocent 
who are not conscious of their danger. He steals 
from others their natural birthright and strikes with 
his dangerous weapon, unheeding whom he may slay. 

Why is not such ignorance swept away! Why 
are not the powers of mind made the important ques- 
tion to be settled, the lesson to be learned, not as the 
schools and universities are now experimenting 
through physical tests and the abnormal expressions 
of diseased mentality, but by the power of Mind 
itself to reveal the psychic life, and explain the 
source of this great controlling principle, that a 
natural, true, and philosophic system may be given 
to the world to educate, to strengthen, to civilize 
humanity, and to give to this generation and the suc- 
ceeding ones the key to their own individuality that 
they may unlock the power that will direct all life 
into its normal and natural expression, gifts, uses, 
benefits, inspiration, and unfoldment! 

How can we call ourselves civilized while we still 
have this horror at the heart of life — how can we 
call another nation at war, bloodthirsty since that 
nation threatens to kill and then takes life — while 
we who appear to be more refined are taking lives 



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legally, and selfishly, through indulgence, through 
greed of wealth, and causing misery to the living that 
is worse than death, and wantonly leaving to off- 
spring the effect of the misused mind that will result 
in weakness, or temptation as long as life goes on 
without awakening to the knowledge, that the mind 
has power and principle over all that enslaves it ? 

The deceptive mind is always luring the weak and 
the ignorant, and the unsuspecting. The attractive 
guise of that which poisons and inflames the brain 
conceals the deadly cause. Alcoholism goes hand in 
hand with all that is degrading physically and men- 
tally. Tobacco unmistakably registers its poison in 
the membranes and is insidious in its effect both on 
heart and brain. Intemperance in eating proclaims 
its sensuality and destroys the bodily fineness and 
beauty ; and all things that enter into the mouth have 
their own part in the construction or destruction of 
the physical organism, and enter the brain affecting 
the material structure; impress their pictures, in- 
fluencing not only the organ of thought, but affecting 
the thought life itself — even unto generations unnum- 
bered. This is a punishment justly given by trans- 
gressed nature, until ofttimes the brain is thrown 
into a complete frenzy, and a delirium that registers 
on that brain all sorts of murderous visions which 
are abnormally produced yet which seem real to the 
victim of the effects of such inflammatory causes. In 



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this temporary insanity the individual finds himself 
in bitter suffering, trying to protect himself against 
enemies in every form from animal to human — and 
in his wildness fights to slay serpents and beasts and 
people — and places upon his mind the mental pictures 
that later, in some unguarded moment, some stress of 
circumstances, some weakness, or some continued 
delirium or frenzy, really take life. 

Or this suffering in some degree lives in the 
physical brain cells that form the thought organism 
of the innocent child — and holds the possibility of 
lack of resistance and constitutional weakness that 
results from an impaired mental or physical condi- 
tion of the ancestor. 

This should teach humanity its responsibility not 
only to self, but to the innocent children that are 
brought into this life to suffer, and struggle, and 
perhaps fall, not through their own misdeeds so 
much as through the bad conditions given them by 
their parents. 

This truth cannot be ignored — it will be found 
waiting the selfish and the intemperate according to 
the inflexible laws of life. 

Each one is ashed to individualize in the beautiful 
powers of life, but many choose to be the victims of 
unnatural, abnormal living, and violate the divine 
laws of their own life, and bring misery to those with 
whom they associate and those who look to them for 



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an honorable birthright and protection. It is a low 
type of life, and it produces insanities, murders, 
weakness, crippled organisms, vicious minds, slavery, 
selfishness, wars, and uncivilized conditions of every 
sort, regardless of the position or so-called culture, or 
wealth, or power of the individual who lives abnor- 
mally, and the results are just as appalling as are 
those which are less easily concealed and more appar- 
ent in the slums of life. 

When youth falls victim to some intemperance, or 
folly, or weakness it is often a cause for wonderment 
— especially if the condition and heredity and en- 
vironment seem favorable — but if one looks back- 
ward, he will find that the tendency has manifested 
itself and spoken plainly in the thought or life of 
some ancestor. 

This may seem to remove the responsibility from 
the wrong-doer, but it should only make his or her 
responsibility tenfold as serious, for the salvation of 
mind is through mind. The constitution of mind is 
of the life principles that are the powers of the whole 
organism, and are restorative and limitless when their 
laws and uses are understood and applied to life. 

The brain operates through the whole organism, 
and it operates only from mind. When the mind has 
withdrawn from the brain through accident, or phys- 
ical obstructions — or the separation of body and 
spirit, there is no normal process of thinking in the 



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one condition — and there is the expression of death 
when this power is wholly withdrawa- 
ls it not the duty of the world to study these con- 
ditions, and to realize their delicacy and their true 
adjustment, that there may be fewer disasters men- 
tally, and a stronger, more natural life built ? 

This is the wisdom of God's laws, seen in their 
light and truth and love and power, and this subject 
is presented here that there may be a higher realiza- 
tion of mind than prevails at the present time, how- 
ever unusual have been some isolated manifestations, 
and whatever the psychologists may have presented as 
theories. 

Many have exhibited great power of mental control, 
mind conditions superior to the usual expression; 
any power grows by the using, and it would have been 
a dull world indeed not to notice some of the accom- 
plishments of the mental faculties, and not to desire 
to develop the poise and will and power that unmis- 
takably proclaim themselves from mind. 

Yet, its life itself, its relation to the central power, 
its eternal principles, its essences, its powers, its 
interblending in the life of the individual and the 
life of the whole universe, its registering faculty, its 
mirror-like processes, its rebuilding, permeating 
effect, its natural relation to all the physical expres- 
sions, have not been understood, and thus have not 
been lived. 



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More than this, its freedom lias never been given it. 
Its true association with the spheres of the higher 
intelligence has never been fully realized. Its 
unclouded, unobstructed possibilities, when the true 
freedom of the natural life is given every soul, has 
never been dreamed of. The health of the body 
under such conditions has never been known. The 
purified social conditions have never been conceived 
of. And all this must first come through mind, and 
then result through the mental life powers and wisdom 
and love. 

The mind is the controlling power of life. The 
individualized mind is the protection of the race. 
The undeveloped mind is degenerate physically and 
mentally. It may clothe itself with wealth, and use 
all the protection against observation that is possible, 
yet it is even then a monster that the world needs to 
be freed from. 

The thinking mind must stand free from society, 
from people, from the "say-so" of the world, and 
develop according to God's law. Opinion gives you 
no power. It proves nothing — but it is life itself 
that shows whether it is in conscious touch with the 
Central power or whether the individual is a victim 
of reflex thinking and action. 

These laws are forceful, immutable, just — not 
according to man's idea of justice, but according to 
universal principles. Man shall reap as he sows! 



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The ignorant trustful person is less dangerous than 
the ignorant wilful person. Those who trust in 
Nature's laws and can be in sympathy with the note 
of the bird, the fragrance of flowers, the coloring of 
foliage and find inspiration in the brook as it ripples 
by the wayside, are trusting in Deific life and laws, 
and are being led out from their selfish limitations. 

The individual who believes he has plans superior 
to the Deific is more to be feared. These are the 
people who build institutions for punishment. 

It is the privilege of every person to be led into 
the knowledge of the love principles and beauties of 
the mind, whose powers should be respected to the 
degree that the physical organism would not be 
allowed to cast the first stone against the mind, but 
safeguard it that its treasures may become the most 
beautiful jewel that can be possessed. Such a mind 
makes the individual his own saviour; it unites that 
individual face to face, hand to hand, soul to soul 
with the Great Consciousness of love that lives in 
each soul — to that fountain of each organism whereby 
it may be cleansed in the purifying elements of life, 
strength and power, and by which the former unclean 
expressions, undesirable habits, ignorant thoughts, 
abnormal pictures shall be washed away. 

This light and love and cleansing power will speak 
to humanity of higher principles, and unfold mind 
so that truth may be perceived. Every person needs 



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to be led from the wilderness — every mind needs illu- 
mination. This message is given that the inner con- 
sciousness of man may be touched by the love that 
lives within every principle, and that the bars of 
ignorance may be broken down, and the inner life 
stimulated that it may grow in strength, power, and 
wisdom, and respond to the sunshine of heaven that 
dispels all darkness. 

This love reaches with arms unseen to gather life 
and nestle it upon the tender breast of God's sym- 
pathy for his suffering children, that they may 
awaken to a realization of what their ignorance has 
done to themselves and to others. Then shall they 
reach out in love and thankfulness to such words, and 
be drawn closely to the powers and principles in God's 
life that sustains and uplifts, that heals all physical 
wounds, that purifies all mental uncleanness, that 
removes distress from the mind, and places all power- 
ful truth in the stead of untruth, and unfolds all the 
faculties and possibilities that are the immortal pos- 
sessions of every soul. 

Thus will be removed the hideous visions that are 
embodied in prisons, in insane asylums, in reform- 
atories, in hospitals and wherever the ignorance of 
God's laws has placed man. Instead of these struct- 
ures let us place in the land monuments of right 
living, that the world may look upon institutions that 
teach truth — that have found wisdom — that under- 
stand law! 



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CHAPTEE XIV. 
THE UNFORTUNATE MIND. 

Many are born into this physical life who must 
suffer the disadvantages of an unfair chance mentally 
and physically, handicapped by the unfavorable con- 
ditions of parentage and environment, and depressed 
by the destructive, superficial things that retard even 
the normal being from developing the natural powers 
of bodv and mind. 

While progress is ever working as the redeemer to 
unfold the spiritual consciousness of each individual, 
and while all are children of the Infinite, and are 
given life and immortality by the same divine prin- 
ciples, as birthright and heritage, yet they are long 
kept from realizing these qualifications because 
ignorance has made the situation so unfavorable and 
so unjust. 

It is this part of life that we are working to adjust, 
and to give the world thoughts and truths in the 



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philosophy of the laws of life that a more natural and 
normal plane of living will be the result, and that the 
spiritual consciousness will be awakened, and that 
men and women may realize what is possible in this 
earthly expression and the world may be given the 
rightful inheritance and opportunities for all its 
children. 

While we are perfectly conscious that the power of 
Deity manifests itself through all of Nature's laws 
and will work out the salvation of all life in some 
age, yet we would arouse the minds yet unawakened 
to their duty in this earthly expression. 

Individual life is responsible for the advantages it 
throws aside, and for the opportunities it ignores in 
the natural unf oldment and development of mind. 

It is through mind that the individual spiritual 
principles express themselves and give the foundation 
for development, for the graduation from sphere to 
sphere according to the Deific plan. 

The world cannot feel that it has successfully dealt 
with any of its abnormal conditions. The evidence 
is before us in all its reality. Wretchedness symbol- 
izes ignorance — and palliative measures are but make- 
shifts that confess ignorance as to the real curative 
methods. We have only to look about us to see the 
manifestations of injurious living. The prisons, the 
insane asylums, the hospitals, the reformatories, the 
sanitariums, all these indicate that there are unfor- 



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tunate minds, criminals, deformed, crippled, diseased, 
drugged, inebriate individuals, and while it is 
merciful to try to relieve such wrongs, yet we cannot 
choose to continue with the kind of living that makes 
these institutions necessary. 

We feel it more beautiful to go to the cause of 
all this, and to advance the thoughts that come from 
larger souls who would find the curative methods that 
will adjust lives that are now needy, and will help 
the world generally to outgrow the ills of ignorance, 
and grow into the normal and natural unfoldment of 
the consciousness that exists in the developed mind, 
— for this is the solution of all problems, the curative 
of all unfortunate or evil conditions that reproduce 
their miseries in the minds and lives of the innocent 
victims of all unjust conditions. 

The unfortunate will be given their rightful 
heritage, and the coming generations will be born into 
their rightful opportunities — this will be more char- 
itable than to feed the hungry with material food, for 
they have long starved for that which has been wrong- 
fully withheld from them. 

While it is kind to lift up man after he has fallen, 
it is kinder to assist him with that which will help 
him stand and then walk alone, and not fall again. 
The conditions that are producing these unfortunate 
things must be removed, instead of bringing fuel to 



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the fire that when allowed to burn will always make 
smoke and ashes to be cared for. 

The inflammable substances must be changed to 
that which is useful, and life must be the conquerer. 

The fortunate and well poised mind is undisturbed 
and unaffected by the materialistic, superficial 
excesses that injure and deform the minds of the 
unfortunate — the weak, and the vicious. The dark- 
ened mind reproduces its darkness, but the light of 
truth can and will penetrate the remotest recesses and 
finally transform all things according to the working 
of natural laws. 

It is for the unfortunate mind that the individual- 
ized mind is working, that the progressed type may 
become the rule and not the exception. We should 
judge not, for it is only God and Justice that can 
look upon the unfortunate and understand what has 
been lost to them, and through them, and that their 
wrong acts result from conditions unfavorable, and 
that they suffer through the injustice of human follies 
and excesses and selfishness. 

Every child should have his true birthright both in 
body and mind. Every person should have his right- 
ful opportunity in this life. The strong should teach 
self justice, that the weak may be protected and 
encouraged to a greater self-reliance. 

Why should any individual be called upon to 
suffer injustice from another ? Why should any one 



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be encouraged to bear unnecessary afflictions, or the 
restrictions imposed by wilful selfishness in others ? 
Why should any individual lose his heritage — why 
should life be stolen, from the weak by the strong ? 

What laws are those which truly represent Nature 
— what creed sets forth man's likeness to Deity — 
what philosophy bids man take counsel from himself? 

The laws of the land must take their course, but 
the soul development is marching on — and one soul 
is just as sacred as another, one individual's rights 
are just as sacred as another's, and no matter how 
sin-stained, how tarnished, or how down-trodden the 
individual there should be no scorn, no sneer, given 
by the fortunate, but truth should be set forth, and 
love and wisdom manifested that justice be done to 
all mankind, and that life should be made valuable, 
and that the lawful heritage be given every soul. 

Then we may feel that we are God-like men and 
women, responding to Nature, making an effort to 
fulfill the law and worthy the position we claim to 
maintain as workers for human rights. It is far 
easier to be the fortunate mind and unfold in favor- 
able conditions, so it is well for us to be careful and 
see to it that we hold ourselves responsible as we 
receive the natural blessings that result, and do not 
scorn the unfortunate. This will prove the sincerity 
of each. 

Are you sad when any mother's child becomes the 



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victim of disaster in life ? Has your soul conscious- 
ness awakened within yon to love other father's and 
mother's children as your own — or your neighbor as 
yourself ? 

The truth of individual rights should be revealed 
to the world. 

All souls should be educated to this higher under- 
standing that darkness may be dispelled, and that 
love and sympathy may be universal. When you 
will not have to gaze on the suffering of some mother's 
boy or girl and be saddened by the conditions that 
seem hopeless, you may feel that you have given a 
portion of your life to make all minds fortunate, and 
that the reproduction of unfortunate minds is at an 
end. The things that retard civilization will be no 
more. 

We know that committees and commissions have 
been privately and publicly appointed to investigate 
the ill conditions of the world, and while much has 
been done to do away with the plague spots of the 
world, yet the cause of the ills and evils has never 
been removed. The work is only partial, and so the 
results are but partial. 

It is a universal question, and must be dealt with 
universally according to Nature. Each individual 
must come into the knowledge of individual respon- 
sibility, and understand the laws that are universal, 
individual, just, unerring, and not man-made. 



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Deity's laws must be recognized that life in this 
physical expression will be natural, and give each his 
rightful opportunity, that every child may he well- 
horn, and live and grow up under the constructive 
laws, and not led into the abnormal, the unnatural, 
the unfortunate, but become more and more unfolded, 
more and more illumined, more and more wise in the 
wisdom of God's ways. 

This removes the artificial authority of religious 
teachings, and the self-imposed authority of one life 
over another. This brings the world into true 
brotherhood, and the religion of truth, and establishes 
the sacred rights of every individual. 

The welfare of all souls will then be considered, 
and the world will then be civilized, and understand 
that differentiations of religions, forms, customs, 
laws, opinions are but stumbling blocks that have 
kept man from interblending his life with the life 
of God. 

When this is recognized as justice then will con- 
tention, error, ills, selfishness, wars, pass away. 
Then will the weapons be laid down that have left 
the scars upon the physical forms, that have wounded 
hearts, and bruised minds. 

Then we will be at peace with ourselves, and we 
will be removed from cults and creeds and walk out 
into the freedom of our own lives, and hand to hand, 
heart to heart, soul to soul, regardless of petty ques- 



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tions as to previous beliefs, we will express the har- 
mony of life that shall amalgamate humanity. 

This has been preached but not lived, — now it will 
be lived and not preached. It is not the popular 
doctrine, not what society desires, but it is the neces- 
sary truth to solve the questions that confront the 
world, and that will assist the lower types of human- 
ity to unfold and ascend to the higher planes of life, 
where there is universal freedom and no unfortunate 
minds — for there is no depression and lives have 
become adjusted through the realization of individual 
rights and privileges, through freedom and limitless, 
endless, power and progression. 



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CHAPTER XV. 

THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE THAT FLOWS 
THROUGH THE MIND. 

When mastery in the individualized mind is gained 
then the access to the fountain of mind is given the 
individual. This is the fountain of one's own life. 
The entrance to this fountain is so beautiful, so sensi- 
tive, so seemingly delicate yet it is radiant with 
power, and life, that none can enter in until every 
faculty of life has been unfolded to harmonize with 
its influence. 

This is the entrance to the limitless life of power, 
peace, and beauty. This is the open door through 
which can come limitless truths concerning life — and 
life covers all forms, all expressions and manifesta- 
tions of every plane of existence both spiritual and 
material, it is without beginning and without end. 
Life is the balancing power of all things. The mate- 



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rial plane of life is but a spiritual plane for all life 
is spirit. 

The physical body is but a material house in which 
the spirit individual is living for earthly expression 
and development in likeness to the higher type of 
existence from which it came. 

All forms of life hold the spiritual principles and 
these manifest themselves through matter for growth 
and development. The forms vary according to this 
growth and development. Even so do individuals 
vary in their expression though their life elements 
are animated by the same spiritual principles. 

We come here for experience. We go to the larger 
life to use the experience gained in the form; so 
matter is only taken on in formation as a necessity 
to individualization in spiritual growth. 

As we gain entrance to this fountain of life which 
so tenderly waits to greet each at the shrine of his 
own being, we become free from the superstition and 
bondage of ignorance, and become free in the indi- 
vidualization of the higher characteristics of life, 
through the mind. It is like all other things of 
benefit won by human effort, more precious because 
it is thus obtained through work, and growth, and 
unfoldment. Then are its wonderful attributes 
understood. Then does it express itself in life. 
Then does it unfold into the higher, purer, stronger, 
into the perfect principles of life that are enduring 



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and untiring in their work for this higher spiritual 
expression. 

Symbolically we but enter into the garden of our 
own lives where the colors, the perfumes, the loveli- 
ness, the essences of all finer expression of the higher 
wisdom of love, manifest themselves to us, and 
express to others the beautiful meanings of which 
we are conscious, and which we can use for health, 
strength and the up-building of all of life's faculties. 

These principles of life are in need of individual- 
ization and unfoldment. These love elements should 
spring up in lives that suffering should be ended, and 
the world realize what the loving truths are that God 
has given to each individual to use for his own benefit, 
and the benefit of mankind. 

The so-called educated are as ignorant of these 
principles as are the so-called ignorant. All are 
suffering for the knowledge of the wonderful powers 
and principles contained in each life. 

From such knowledge individuals would inhale 
from the atmosphere itself the elements that would 
fill their lives with the vitalizing elements that would 
stimulate the mental and physical to larger life. 
But the mind must first be unfolded to a conscious- 
ness of these elements and possibilities. There must 
be wisdom and love and harmony all interblending, 
all manifesting for the up-building of the life powers 
and faculties. 



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It is only through a harmonization of the faculties 
that this fountain of life can be used — then it flows 
freely into the life of the individual according to the 
degree it is conceived of, appreciated, and made good 
use of for the true life building, and character build- 
ing in the wisdom of deific principles. 

In this fountain is everything necessary to meet 
the demand of every hour, every day, every moment 
of this life's expression, provided the individual 
harmony has been established, and the faculties 
expanded to the high conception of the true expres- 
sion of the life giving elements that live in this foun- 
tain. 

It is but a fountain, yet we find that the powers, 
principles, character, love elements are limitless and 
endless in capacity to strengthen, sustain, uplift, 
sweeten, purify, blend and interblend the finer intel- 
ligences, forces, and thought life, to intertwine into 
all this all that is necessary to adjust all things in 
life — to heal the sick, dispel all darkness, to reclaim 
the erring, to strengthen the weak, to open the eyes 
of the spiritually blind that each soul may see the 
meaning of life, awaken to the higher consciousness 
of wisdom, find his own soul center, and live in the 
fountain of his own life, and bathe in its principles 
and powers. 

It is only through such wisdom that you can make 
life in a complete oneness in the functioning of all 



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life faculties, because it is through this wisdom alone 
that you can conceive and perceive the value of these 
spirit essences and know how to use them for individ- 
ual growth and universal human welfare. 

Man has lived in a palace in the midst of angels, 
yet his eyes and ears and mind have been closed to it 
all, and he has cried for assistance in his ignorance, 
and has suffered from his own erring ways. In the 
silence of that moment heaven was at hand; the 
angels were reaching out to greet him through the 
highest principles of life. God's sustaining arm of 
justice and wisdom was about him, and yet man had 
no knowledge of this — he was suffering through his 
own ignorance and selfishness, struggling, asking, 
falling back into the errors man has made, satisfied 
for a time, yet doubting, fearing, praying — and still 
living. 

Just be true to yourself, loyal to God, and his 
power, in harmony with the angels, and life will then 
be interblended, not through force, but by wisdom, 
power and life. 

In such principles are all essences that are needed 
to move peacefully, gently, beyond human compre- 
hension, in the laws of loving truths. 

The life conditions will speak in power; the 
magnetic aura that surrounds such an individual will 
be of such a quality and character that the world shall 
feel its influence, even though it understands it not. 



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Weary not in well doing. E alter not by the way- 
side. Fear not because of no direct response; thy 
work is being done on earth even as it is in heaven. 
Journey on, thou shalt be led! 

The crucifixion can come to the material form but 
not to life itself. The pathway of time shall be 
marked by humanity seeking for truth for the foun- 
tain of life. It cannot all be expressed in this plane, 
but can always be expressed throughout eternity. 

Thus through God's universal truth, baptized by 
the dew of heaven, this fountain of the master build- 
ing of the universe is sufficient for all the needs of 
humanity, for peace, for love, for health, for wisdom, 
for power. 

Eear not ! You need not question for then can 
the consciousness answer all questions — in that hour 
it shall be given you what to say. The sustaining 
power is within, and ready to manifest in times of 
need. 

The fulness and oneness of all the faculties are 
complete through the individualized mind and its 
principles of spirit power. No man can be born into 
that which he is ignorant of. The past sins and 
errors are not forgiven but outgrown — and only 
through unfoldment is one "born again" — born into 
the conception of the fountain of life that flows 
through the mind. 



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God's power will sway the world, ignorance can- 
not prevail. 

Man will not worship and fear, but love, and 
rejoice as he awakens to the light that dispels all 
darkness. 

Individualism means first standing alone, — alone 
in the conception of one's own life, and of Deity's 
expression and manifestation and of one's relation- 
ship to the universe. 

Then growth will interblend these lives with other 
lives and lead others to realize their own wisdom and 
power. 

You assume your rightful place, and recognize the 
rightful place of all others. You are led into indi- 
vidualization and have the endorsement of your own 
higher consciousness, and the endorsement of all that 
lives in the universal wisdom. 

When such truths are expressed in life the con- 
structive process for all other lives continues. These 
truths speak for themselves, and tell what is right 
and what is wrong in human lives — even in tones 
that may be unknown to individuals existing on 
lower planes. Truth and principle never die but 
grow and live under favorable conditions into beauties 
and knowledge undreamed of. 

Through this truth the individual is powerful, 
just, honorable, breathing in the heavenly atmos- 
phere, emanating these beauties through the magnetic 



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aura, blessing the world, healing the sick, dispelling 
darkness, and removing the cause of ills and evils, 
bringing all unto the harmony and power that all 
lives should be individualized, that mastery be gained, 
that each should recognize the fountain of his ow T n 
mind and dwell in peace, wisdom, and bliss now and 
throughout eternity. 



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CHAPTER XVI. 
HEALING. 

The general rules for physical health are few. 

Simplicity in living is the most important. 

Exercise, diet, work and play should be propor- 
tionate to the individual condition, and each should 
be a law unto himself, intelligent as to his own con- 
stitution and the laws of Nature. 

The body is provided with every recuperative and 
restorative principle. The Universe is filled with 
every life-giving element and force. 

To know how to use these natural resources 
naturally, should be considered as absolutely im- 
portant in the education of every person. Every 
child should study the Science of Nature, and under- 
stand the Universal laws as they relate to life. 

There is no partial way of living that is normal, 
and there is no partial way of healing that is natural. 

Man as a complete being is related to the universe 



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as a complete whole, and in man and the universe 
are the laws of life. 

The fuller and higher this recognition the greater 
the healing power and result. 

All the universal elements play their part, and are 
all adapted to the whole life and welfare of the indi- 
vidual. 

There is no special form, or separation, or specific, 
or therapy — but the life power itself as it has 
unfolded and completed itself in matter through spirit 
or immortal intelligence. 

The amount of motion determines the quality of 
life. Even as the planets evolved from the fiery mass 
to habitable globes, and as the atmosphere cleared 
from dense conditions to light and variations in color, 
so can the individual use the motion within his own 
life currents to check or increase his spiritual circula- 
tion, and thus up-build, restore, enlarge, and hold in 
a just equilibrium his physical body, and by the same 
radiations of spirit produce harmony of soul con- 
sciousness and expression. 

He can be master of his own instrument, and 
vibrate all the life harmonies, truth, justice, unselfish- 
ness, love, charity, repose, aspiration, mercy and 
freedom. Every sentiment has its own vibration 
and the tune may be noble, strong, gentle, yet com- 
manding, and spiritual. 

Love and all the attributes of love can be used 



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selfishly or unselfishly. If we live in materialistic 
ideals then we overpower the spiritual ideals and 
develop small, narrow and stagnant expressions, thus 
becoming crude as individuals, shutting out the 
beauty that would flow in reciprocally as the greater 
love flowed out in universal power. People get just 
what they develop. 

We need a love for growth and development, a love 
for truth and wisdom that harmony may result from 
the interblending of all the elements of pure love. 
Then we rise from the limited conditions of selfish 
love, and are vibrating in unison with the great love 
elements of the universe. 

Cleanse your temple. Put it in order that it may 
receive the greater knowledge, and radiate light and 
love. These are the love elements that cleanse, illu- 
minate, sweeten and make life fragrant, permeating 
the atmosphere, allowing us to realize the limitless 
things for which we are reaching, to bring into our 
temple. 

Here as we awaken to this knowledge within our- 
selves let us value our faculties, that we may become 
harmonious instruments made sensitive to the ethereal 
spiritual elements that illuminate this beautiful 
inner self ; let us live this truth and bring its spirit- 
ual messages to our mental and physical conditions 
that we may become wise and strong, and use this 
unfoldment for universal as well as individual good. 



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It is through the soul that all the harmonies (or 
discords) sound, so it is in the soul that we would 
find the key of self, and set all the loves of life in 
tune. 

Here we open the gateway to the spirit — or power 
— or life of life. This inner dwelling place is beau- 
tifully arranged for us by God's love and wisdom — 
here we can find heaven, because heaven results from 
harmonious conditions. 

Here we must go to solve every problem. We must 
find the way through the gateway of our own life, and 
when we do this we place ourselves where we can 
receive truth and wisdom and love from the great 
universe of life. This brings us to a higher concep- 
tion of our own being, and thus opens the avenues to 
the unseen principles which have their source in the 
great Deific center which is the cause of all life and 
law. 

The larger things of life tell us how to use these 
laws. We then find ourselves as an indwelling light 
which can reflect and radiate truth, and which has 
the power to see through the materiality that has been 
obstructed between man and the spiritual avenue of 
himself and the higher expressions of life. He will 
then understand how the world has been filled with 
superficial opinions that are but waste matter, yet 
very disturbing to progress. 

We can then see with our spiritual eyes and sense 



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with our spiritual consciousness the existing condi- 
tions. It is always from our own temple that we 
must look; it is through the windows of our own soul 
we must view the higher realms of spirit, and thus 
we may come in touch with" the master minds of the 
universe — both from the seen and the unseen and 
receive their thought, and be instructed in wisdom, 
and thus blend our lives with all progressive condi- 
tions. We shall receive the baptism of Deific power, 
and then will mold our lives in likeness to the powers 
of truth. 

Nothing is impossible in the universe of life. We 
can absorb all the truth for our life at any time and 
at all times, under all conditions and circumstances 
if we have placed our physical, mental and spiritual 
self in harmony with the real attributes of life. 

This is the working out of our own salvation 
through growth, by complying and harmonizing with 
the laws of nature, recognizing at all times the Deific 
principles and love elements in all things and all 
forms of life, and through this adaptation make our- 
selves equal to all conditions that come to us. 

To realize these strong and beautiful and high con- 
ditions we must make ourselves worthy, and act, 
unhampered by the cruder forms and thoughts. We 
must be free from self -discord that we may interblend 
with all the beautiful things that make life one grand 
symphony, and become a harmonized force united 



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with all harmonized forces of the universe, playing 
our part accurately, in time, in tune, in volume, 
vibrating in perfect oneness with the Father to whom 
all things are possible, and who through his life and 
love principles has given this same possibility to his 
children. 

We want to awaken that consciousness within that 
always has been, to its great possibilities. We are 
ever growing, and there is no ending, for the powers 
of consciousness we have entered into are limitless; 
therefore we must gather something additional to 
what we have received, and expand into larger con- 
sciousness, cause the material brain to become more 
active, and still better fitted to receive greater wisdom 
and strength; stimulate it with thought, nourish it, 
exercise it, for its growth. The physical organism being 
irradiated, stimulated, strengthened and pervaded 
by the great spiritual life will become a still better 
material physical organism, and still better fitted to 
receive the spiritual knowledge. Even the atoms of 
the physical body will be irradiated by this knowledge 
and power from the soul center and will voluntarily 
make use of the higher benefits. The awakening con- 
sciousness senses the spiritual part that acts on the 
soul as an avenue to produce a healthy harmonious, 
well-poised, spiritualized illuminated being, in one- 
ness with itself, attuned to still higher vibrations that 
are more sensitive, more refined, more delicate, more 



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susceptible to the silent language of Deity because of 
its Higher unf oldments. 

It is in the silence of life that the bodily instru- 
ment is being attuned to the still finer qualities of 
its own principles by the higher spiritual elements of 
the unseen. While in the silence the soul reaches 
out into the universe to receive strength and to be 
enabled to perform the work for which you are pre- 
paring. 

When you begin any work which concerns the 
welfare of life, and have made your own condition 
suitable for that undertaking, you can always find in 
the universe the necessary things whereby to perform 
that which is for the growth and welfare of humanity 
— at any time or at any place, for time and space 
make no difference in the manifestation of Deity's 
laws — these principles are ever present ivithin you, 
and about you. 

The more difficult the work, the finer must the 
conditions be made that they may fit that which is to 
be performed. 

Your condition must be in harmony with things 
that exist in the heights. There must be a blending 
between you and the high centers, in order for you to 
receive more strength and wisdom, and if you do not 
receive this, it is because you have not complied with 
the condition. Tour condition must be in harmony 
with what you have asked for else according to the 



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law of justice you are not entitled to that assistance 
that is able to come only through your own soul life 
as it has expanded into the universal unity with the 
spirituality of life. 

We must always be in harmony, and that adjust- 
ment must always be in harmony with whatever we 
are attempting to do, for there are minor things — 
and there are major undertakings. Everything must 
be consistent, adapted to the needs — and the condi- 
tions made proper for this by your own understand- 
ing and acts. 

If it is illness then should the cause be investigated. 
A healer must be poised through growth, passive and 
positive, never negative. He must be in harmo- 
nious attunement and able to penetrate the material 
conditions, and with this developed spiritual faculty 
see the disease as it affects the physical organs and 
reflects its influences on the mental, thus sensing the 
patient's whole condition. 

This spiritual insight is far superior to any mate- 
rial instrument of investigation or photography, and 
is so quick and so complete that it is of itself like a 
photographing process. 

The spiritual faculties are so unfolded in wisdom 
that they exhibit their God-like attributes of wisdom 
and strength and you are thus using the highest 
source of the perfected life elements by which you 
diagnose disease, and do your work. 



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There is nothing higher, there is nothing greater, 
there is nothing larger, there is nothing more power- 
ful, there is nothing beyond, there is nothing more 
beautiful, more kind, more luminous, more brilliant, 
there is nothing softer or more peaceful to the con- 
sciousness of life, there is nothing of greater love or 
greater charity to work with in the hands of any one 
seen or unseen, for this is the source that Nature 
provides, and to which this science refers you for 
truth, for seeing, for sending, and for knowing — this 
is the highest knowledge and the greatest power in 
the universe. It is love — unselfish love permeating 
the atmosphere of the healer because he is operating 
with the soul principles of life. 

Your spiritual consciousness in recognizing this 
becomes brave. You are awakened to the highest 
power, and are fearless to face any condition, disease, 
or any difficulty, to accomplish any work, and if you 
do not succeed the trouble is with yourself, not with 
the powers you are working through. 

So this proves to you how perfect your condition 
must be, how sincerely you must be adjusted to this 
power. It must not be in selfishness, but in wisdom, 
and harmony, and growth, and power, and love, a 
sympathy of all the soul principles in the purpose to 
lift all souls, dispel all darkness and disease, and 
make the world in likeness to the source you are 



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looking to, and by which and in which you make 
your own conditions true and beautiful. 

You are limitless because you are dealing with the 
highest power. All things are possible. You your- 
self must grow, you must be the truth your are claim- 
ing yourself to be, you must live the life of truth and 
justice and harmony, and with peace on earth, good 
will to men, in order to give this help and grow in 
its power. 

This cannot be made a mockery of, or you will find 
yourself the fool, and will suffer from the condemna- 
tion of your own hypocrisy and blindness. 

It is only through your life, regardless of opinion, 
that you can grow, and can make yourself an instru- 
ment that can radiate the higher life and be the more 
perfect instrument at all times and under all condi- 
tions. 

You cannot ask the Divine to be a slave of your 
own ignorance. You are God, and God is you. 
Nothing can fail you. 

This accomplishment is reached step by step, 
builded stone upon stone, secured by the firm founda- 
tion of character, perfected in patience, and secure 
by the soul's growth and unfoldment in the eternal 
principles that are life itself 

Our life elements are controlled and maintained 
by spirit. These magnetic or life forces can be used 
by the operator through the mental powers to just 



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the degree that he has knowledge to use this vital 
emanation. 

It is necessary to know how to control this magnetic 
force in order to sustain your patient, and to protect 
yourself, for one who is weak more readily absorbs 
this life giving element. You naturally sustain a 
very depleted person by your own inner life, even 
without the laying on of hands ; under the conditions 
of silence you can reach your patient physically, men- 
tally and spiritually, by your physical, mental and 
spiritual forces, and lift him and bring harmony to 
his organism and thus open the door to his own 
spirit to assist you in his up-building. 

It is necessary for you to be absolutely positive, 
asserting your own mental power to withhold your 
magnetic force from those who would ignorantly or 
unguardedly take it when not voluntarily using the 
healing gifts. To the patient you are giving life 
itself through your own being, for this same life 
force, spiritually, mentally, physically, is received 
from the great universal fountain of elements ; it is 
limitless in power, thus we never deplete ourselves 
for we are not depending upon our own limitations, 
but reach out into the universe, into the love elements 
of the unseen, there to bathe in the stimulating truth 
of love, wisdom, and power that always keeps us as 
healers well sustained with the life giving elements 
of Deity, for health, knowledge, and truth, that we 



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may make our own conditions larger and our lives 
ever nobler and stronger, thus ever receiving, and 
ever giving to our brother man and sister woman. 

These life elements are free to all, but ignorance 
has closed the way between the full benefit that other- 
wise could have come through these beautiful uses of it. 
We who have been awakened to the consciousness of 
the laws of life through natural law, will understand 
better how to attract to ourselves as a magnet these 
forces, and become well poised, ready to assist others 
to the fuller development of themselves in the realiza- 
tion of their own possibilities. 

You are a spark of every life element, powerful to 
heal, to educate, to uplift, and to lead mankind 
toward a more perfect condition, and when you are in 
need of strengthening and sustaining help, and the 
illumination from the higher and still greater 
adjusted lives in the unseen universe, then will this 
greater power and wisdom flow to you from those 
who are capable of being your teachers, and with this 
union and blending of life farce you can reach out 
still further to the heights of life for a greater inter- 
blending of power. Because of your living in these 
truths, and because of your seeking greater knowledge 
you make yourself a greater life force, expanding in 
power and attracting to yourself from the great 
limitless principles of life more wonderful force of 
the life elements of Deity, that builds, strengthens, 



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sustains and unfolds yon to still higher and more 
powerful expressions, never limited by conditions. 
Through these beautiful expressions you continually 
progress and become a larger life, interblending more 
and more with the very life of life. 

This is the constructive plan that is given us 
through the wisdom of Deity, that you may manifest 
these living principles to unlimited possibilities, and 
be in harmony that is ever expressing itself in this 
larger life, that cannot be restrained nor held in 
check by bands of steel. Nothing can prevent the 
blooming of this flower of the soul expression, as it 
lifts its delicate face radiant with love and purity, in 
the sensitiveness of soul consciousness, a face which 
cannot be beheld by mortal eye but is beheld by the 
consciousness that lives within, formed by Deity, 
placed in His garden of life there to give forth to the 
world the essence of spirit power, and to change the 
imperfect conditions to perfect ones through the 
curative life elements. 

It is imposible for any thing to retard this progress. 

These beautiful powers can be transmitted through 
the physical organism. 

TJnfoldment and development are living princi- 
ples. You can resconstruct and build by these deli- 
cate and powerful forces a harmonious personality 
that is finer in its physical construction, kinder, 
nobler, fitted with more beauty because it is rebuilt 



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by the highest conditions that exist in the great life- 
giving elements that re-mold the very soul to power 
and growth, from the unseen life that lives in the 
silence, that is never seen on the surface and is beauty 
and purity within itself. 

You develop a new creature, a higher type of char- 
acter to live within the material organism — a force 
not made with hands, but through the operation of 
the Deific principles as taught by Natural Science, 
through the co-operation of the angels, the body has 
been strengthened, the soul unfolded, and the spirit- 
ual becomes the recognized power of life. 

There must be harmony of the whole physical 
structure — the body, mind and soul — that we may 
have the proper balancing power and the necessary 
equilibrium of forces for health in the operation of 
the spirit through the conditions that are adapted for 
its natural expression. Harmony is the result Deity 
intended, and must be attained through obedience to 
nature's principles. 

Chemical changes are constantly taking place. 
Nature is trying to eliminate that which congests or 
constricts the circulation of these health giving prin- 
ciples, that are constantly working to remove discord 
from the mind and body. These chemical changes 
prepare the way for psychic power to interblend 
throughout the organism, through harmony of the 
spiritual principle which makes the physical body 



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more ethereal and responsive to the power that is 
working to manifest itself more completely in you 
and through you, for your own welfare, and for those 
you wish to aid through the science of Natural heal- 
ing. You must constantly build larger conditions 
for yourself, to be better fitted for whatever experi- 
ence that awaits you. Open your own consciousness 
to the life that is from Deity. Find the plane of 
vibration between yourself and others you would help, 
meet them where they may be expressing life through 
their own characteristics and individuality, that the 
life-like force from your inner consciousness may 
remove the discord of their body and mind, and assist 
their spirit to manifest its own natural power, and 
receive the treasure of life that is theirs by right of 
Natural law. 

You must keep the channels of your own life clear 
to receive and to radiate these life forces. Your 
message to the soul will be received, and your own 
consciousness will be refreshed. The avenue to the 
different souls must be found according to their 
development and condition, and each day as they are 
strengthened they should recognize this thankfully 
to the higher sources, of their own life, and to the 
help that is given them, then through the great law 
of life they are making it still more possible to gain 
the treasure of life that belongs to them. They need 
not feel like lost souls begging for assistance, but as 



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individuals who have opened their consciousness to 
the right way of obtaining the rich, harmonious, beau- 
tiful life elements that the normal, natural being 
inherits, but which ignorance has kept him from 
receiving. The glories of life belong to him, and 
have been provided for him beyond the comprehen- 
sion of man. As his soul speaks to the mental he 
will be more and more directed toward the central 
magnet that illuminates his way to health and harmo- 
nious living. 

You cannot raise a person easily or suddenly to a 
plane you have been years in reaching, but obstruc- 
tions can be removed so that the psychic can reach a 
patient, by giving him his own liberty to free himself 
of mental disturbances, and then the larger conscious- 
ness of the operator can be successfully applied, which 
will gradually make a harmonious adjustment, and 
the patient, through the great laws of life which allow 
everything its place, will be swung outside his sick- 
ness and the readjustment of his physical system will 
take place naturally. 

Chemical changes are ever working to help you 
throw off all that obstructs, for Deity has placed 
everything needed into the physical organism for its 
health and harmony as it lives in this plane of life. 
But through crude conditions and through ignorance 
of the masses, it is necessary that the wiser ones come 
to the rescue of the weak and the unfortunate and 



OF THE MIND 183 

teach them the way to a normal adjustment of their 
forces. 

In this you can only assist Nature, for Nature 
cures the patient after you have taught him how to 
come in right relationship with these natural princi- 
ples. You are simply a larger consciousness in this 
knowledge and with your helpers you perform larger 
manifestations through the natural laws. 

The Universe is filled with everything that is 
needed by man whatever his condition, whatever his 
circumstance, whether sick or well, whether in dis- 
cord or harmony. 

It is impossible to wish for anything or to wish to 
perform anything, or to grow to any greater condition 
or position without being able to find in the universe 
all the things that are necessary to make this possible. 
You are a part of everything in the universe, spirit- 
ually, mentally, and physically; you are from all its 
life elements and principles, as they have developed 
through chemical changes and progressed through 
forms to individualities. This shows the relation- 
ship you bear to the universe, and proves by natural 
law that you may become in harmony with all the 
universe because you have came up from all its life 
elements. 

Thus according to the development and unf oldment 
of your own life you are able to perform the possibil- 
ities that live in Deity, and capable of doing this to 



184 SCIENCE AND POWEE 

just the degree that you find Deity expressing Him- 
self on your plane. 

If you are living as a materialist in the cruder 
part of life and have not awakened to anything 
beyond these possibilities, you are permitted to act 
with absolute freedom through the laws of life, to 
perform all things in acordance with your under- 
standing or choice, and cannot do that which is 
natural to those who are living on a higher plane of 
life. 

Though you have all the wonderful powers and 
possessions of the universe you are limited by your 
own conditions, and until you become more illumined 
from your own center and pass onward to a complete 
realization of the beautiful laws of Deity and the 
inexpressible richness of all life, you. cannot use these 
laws of the higher unf oldment. 

As you advance to a higher plane, you use the 
laws of the higher plane. 

You hold in your organism all the attributes of 
this plane, but until you enter in,to the consciousness 
of this you cannot operate by these laws. You must 
become educated in them, you must become illu- 
minated to a greater extent, you must expand the 
whole mechanism of your life, and step by step 
advance to a still higher plane, where you will find a 
similar experience to the former one, in growth and 
unfoldment, and still find greater powers according 



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to the degree of your comprehension and use of the 
universal principles. 

You may look upon yourself almost as you would 
look upon a tree that grows larger each year — while 
this is true in a sense, it is not in another, because 
you are in a different stage of progression entirely, 
you are an individual, a personality, a part of the 
highest type of soul life and spirituality that can 
ever be — yet held to your own plane according to 
your own growth. 

In every analysis, physical, mental and spiritual, 
we are a part of life, made up of the elements of all 
that life; nothing in the way of elements can be 
added for the material body is the perfection of all 
the forms of the universe, the life essences of all 
beneath it — but it also is animated by the spirituality 
that lives w T ithin the highest and purest soul center 
that is the fountain of all life — the unseen source of 
life. 

Now we no longer look upon ourselves as limited 
by material conditions like the tree, but as an indi- 
vidual soul center, a part of the great life of spirit 
that is all-wise, all-loving, all-limitless in its eternal 
possibilities for development. 

This knowledge must remove all clouds, all narrow- 
ness, and lead you onward where you may review the 
past, and look into the future, realizing you are on 
the great seas of life, where according to your own 



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desire for spirtual growth and development you will 
make your way. 

This power cannot be taken away from you. It 
cannot be bought or sold ! It is life — it is a part of 
every life. It is yours by birthright. 

Your growth is placed in your own hands. No 
one is responsible for you. You can be prompted 
and helped, but only as you are faithful to truth 
according to the light you have, can you advance. 

Your own soul center is a part of the great soul 
center, so nothing more in quality is necessary. You 
must realize it as a great fountain to which you can 
appeal at any time for your own welfare and the 
welfare of humanity. 

This soul center is the essence of spirit, it flows 
through your life, yet you must make conditions that 
are appropriate to the conditions you meet, and the 
work you wish to do. You must have harmony, you 
must be awakened to the laws of Deity, for you can- 
not operate laws to which you are not unfolded. 

This comparing of yourself to the universe will 
always be beautiful to refer to, because it gives you 
knowledge of what you are, and what is possible. 
Sickness, evil, discouragement, misfortune, failure 
even — are but phases of conditions brought about by 
mistakes in living, the misuse of the laws of harmony 
— the cure of which comes only through making a 
complete adjustment of yourself through nature's 



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laws earnestly desiring that the spiritual essence of 
your own life will manifest harmoniously in your 
own organism, for yourself and for others. 

Adjustment solves the mystery of evil and illness 
— and ends it. Both are caused by ignorance, and 
are the obstructions in life — so seek for the higher 
realizations and try to purify your own organism 
as you pass on through every stage and plane of life. 
This progression goes on plane after plane in the 
spiritual spheres, though there is no physical disease, 
there are errors and mistakes that are carried there 
through man's lack of growth here, so we see how 
necessary these teachings are, that man may rid him- 
self of all his coarser traits, and not carry them as 
waste matter but make himself a clean beautiful 
individual to live as Deity has prepared through 
natural law the unfoldment that shall continue 
throughout eternity. 

You must become a One-ness within the law of 
harmony. 

A physical healer operates only on a physical 
plane, and helps the material organism through the 
circulation. You are capable of using the law to 
just the degree that you have unfolded as a limitless 
spiritual being, and you need not be held by any 
station because you are free to become a large soul — 
even to heal without the laying on of hands, — if you 
can make the conditions necessary for this growth. 



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You thus realize more fully your one-ness with the 
Father, as you live in the universe, a part of every 
atom and spiritual principle. 

Life is in your own hands— your growth depends 
on yourself. 

In order to be consistent and intelligent and 
scientific we should be conscious of the principles of 
life on the plane in which we live. This is superior 
to faith — for faith is mere belief in what you are 
depending on, ivhether there is any basis for faith or 
not, and may be a direct contradiction of natural law. 
The results obtained by Faith are never powerful 
unless there is an intelligent, developed mentality 
and reasoning power as basis of faith. There must 
be a union that produces a harmonious working out 
of truth whether recognized or unrecognized, that 
produces desired results. 

If the material mind is satisfied with material 
paraphernalia and opinions that are formed from 
limited conditions and understanding, then the results 
will be in true proportion to those material condi- 
tions, whether of earth life or of spirit life — the 
bounds of such knowledge are always limited by the 
unfoldment of the consciousness, and it is not always 
a question of the plane you are living in, whether 
earthly or spiritual, but it is a question of your 
intelligent recognition of laws, and your manner of 



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operating them, whether you are in this sphere or 
the spirit spheres. 

All share according to their capacity and desire 
for unfoldment. As yon come into harmony with 
all life elements you will naturally express a con- 
scious freedom and harmony and interblending of 
your life with Nature, and with the intelligences of 
the higher planes of life. 

In this way Natural Science teaches you a com- 
plete harmony with physical, mental and spiritual 
expressions, all governed by the same laws and prin- 
ciples, all unfolding from the same source of Deific 
power, all proclaiming truth. 

This proves that faith is only needed where 
ignorance prevails. Truth must he the shaping 
power of our lives, then there is no chance for failure. 
The whole personality becomes a part of all the laws 
of life and consciously conforms to these laws. This 
superior condition is gained through a molding pro- 
cess, and a harmonious recognition of Natural law. 
Progression always reveals the naturalness of every 
plane and makes clear all that seemed obscure when 
you were on a lower plane. As you move onward 
and upward and trace all the life elements that are 
forming and re-forming, unfolding and growing and 
transforming your life you will see that it is one 
grand round of development and progress — and the 
more fully we are conscious of this, the more fully 



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can we claim the right to become a part of every 
possibility and privilege that exists in the universe 
for our use and comprehension. 

All this is yours. You are a part of it. It was 
from the beginning a part of you. 

Life to each one of us means just that which we 
are conscious of in life — and as we have said before, 
there is everything in life and it is just our degree of 
consciousness of everything that makes life to us as 
individuals, and makes the difference in individuals. 

To have a clear vision of all conditions we must 
always view from the side of spirit law as well as 
the material appearance in order to gain the proper 
adjustment and poise to be able to weigh all things 
and to conceive of the value as well as to see its limit- 
less condition. In looking upon both sides we can 
see what good exists therein and discriminate between 
the useful and the superficial and realize that the 
universe of life holds more than man will ever be 
able to comprehend. 

Our lives can be filled with most luminous power 
and we will advance to a wonderful concept of all 
forms of life, especially that which is most unnoticed, 
the spiritual nature that lives in every form of matter, 
and interblends with every organism. Thus we 
become more and more conscious of the truths of life 
and apply these laws in every condition physically, 
mentally and spiritually. 



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There is no reason why we should remain in the 
obstructed part of life, simply because man has lived 
in ignorance of the higher principles, and has used 
the world for his own material gain. It is only 
through the right use of Nature's laws that we can 
obtain any permanent advantage and that will be in 
the degree of our unfoldment. It is through the 
spiritual consciousness that we behold the actual 
power and truth that are ours throughout eternity. 

This is the fulfillment of the law and such progres- 
sion is evidence that the individual is living his own 
natural life, as it was intended by the constructive 
elements of the universe. Under these conditions he 
can see the things in life that are in keeping with the 
highest forms of development, and not superficial 
matter. 

This power that unfolds within is of limitless 
value. It places you upon your own freedom where 
you do not have to acecpt the words of some one else 
upon faith, but where you can use your own judg- 
ment and reasoning faculties. Everything you do 
is either adding to your own knowledge, or obstruct- 
ing you with waste materials that sometime you must 
remove in order to make a clear and clean avenue 
through which your own self must expand. 

The word of truth is divine! 

What is truth ? Truth is that which we can abso- 
lutely prove because of the results obtained in operat- 



192 SCIENCE AND POWEE 

ing it as a truth. That which is a truth to you may 
not be a truth to some one else because their con- 
sciousness is not sufficiently unfolded to comprehend 
the laws and to apply the principles of that truth. 
One truth leads to another, and so greater truths are 
unfolded as we advance in our conscious intelligence 
and progress to higher planes of existence. 

Those on a lower plane do not perceive the truths 
of the higher plane, so there is much confusion of 
thought and disagreement of minds, but whatever 
you find to be true hold to that, regardless of opinion, 
and as you grow more and more harmonious in your 
unfoldment you will behold more and more truth, 
and know what you have gained, and realize the 
justice that is in Nature s laws, and that truth is 
divine. It will always lead you into larger spiritual 
consciousness where you will assume larger respon- 
sibilities, and with charity instill into other lives 
some truth that will enable them to advance from 
out the path of materialism and progress in a natural, 
normal, reasonable consciousness of the laws that 
control all existence. 

Truth has always been in the universe. No one 
creates it. We simply unfold to consciousness of 
truth, and expand our lives upon the existing truths 
and become clearer, cleaner, larger, stronger, better, 
and more beautiful as we progress in this universal 
life. 



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Truth is a living entity, — a germ that when it 
falls in good soil, increases and multiplies and grows 
into a hardy, giant plant that spreads out its branches 
and nourishes and protects those who believe in it. 
Truth never dies, it lives throughout eternity. I 
repeat, Truth is Divine. 



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CHAPTEE XVI. 
THE MAGNETIC AURA. 

The Magnetic Aura surrounds the physical body, 
and varies in coloring and quality according to the 
temperament and intelligence of the individual, and 
its color and quality depends upon the wisdom and 
love elements of the individual. It is an ethereal 
substance that is physical as well as mental, and is of 
influence according to the degree of the spiritual con- 
sciousness of the individual. 

The magnetic aura is most important in its power 
for healing, and for this reason the healer should be 
strong, wholesome, clean, and of good mental atmos- 
phere. A healer is dealing with a high order of 
refined processes, and manifests these processes 
through his own being, which is as a deific center. 

So it is with every individual of any class, any 
profession or any business, the mental influence is 
either to inspire an associate or acquaintance for 



OF THE MIND 195 

higher and nobler living, or else to injure or tarnish 
with the superficial things of the lower mentality and 
abnormal living. The mind of every individual lives 
in this ethereal aura, and the effect of the life of the 
individual expresses itself unseen in the magnetic 
aura. 

The aura of one who lives in discord with himself, 
in ignorance, in selfishness, attracted by the lower 
sensuous things of life, ignorant of the laws that 
govern and control the consciousness, could not 
strengthen, nor sustain, nor harmonize, the life of 
another. 

This is a very important truth, and it relates to 
healers of every kind and cult, whether spiritual, 
mental, or physical. 

The combination of justice, truth, love, light, wis- 
dom, power, peace, and harmony, work out these 
powers, and interblend the principles so that the 
whole aura of such a person is radiating life and 
light, and whoever comes in such a presence realizes 
these characteristics and senses an uplift, for this 
life essence always speaks in the silence to the soul of 
man, and vibrates in his consciousness and stimulates 
him to higher action. 

The more clearly we understand these laws, the 
more surely can self -protection be gained. 

This is most important in regard to healing, and 
in placing oneself under the care and influence of 



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any operator, for in his presence you are in touch 
with the life of the person in the magnetic aura, and 
its influence on the mind and the body depends upon 
the life of the healer. 

This force and power affects the patient, and is 
affected by its own environment. It is the magnetic 
aura by which the healer projects at a distance the 
healing power. 

Healers who are unprincipled and attracted to 
undeveloped lives may get favorable results in treat- 
ing their own kind because there are harmonious 
vibrations between them. The principles of velar 
tionship are ever true in every plane of life. 

The aura is under the law of cause and effect and 
cannot be momentarily changed, nor artificially 
adapted to different people. There is no such thing 
as disguising or falsifying it. 

The spiritual consciousness builds this and per- 
vades the atmosphere in absolute harmony with the 
life of the individual. Each person, each healer, 
offers just what lives in his aura, and he who has 
been sacredly guided to the fountain of his own 
superior consciousness, and studied the laws of 
Nature which are the immutable laws of God, — and 
who has passed through many degrees of development 
and unfoldment of mind into the larger consciousness 
of Mastery of Mind, has become individualized in the 
universal powers and principles, and is building his 



OF THE MIND 197 

life in likeness unto God ; and his magnetic aura will 
be filled with higher healing possibilities and powers 
that are in accord with his own life qualites. 

The laws that govern and control one life govern 
all. 

As we have said before, and emphasize the truth 
again, there are no two lives alike, no two individuals 
the same. Each has his own personal temperament 
and requirements and each must he dealt with accord- 
ing to his own individuality. Physically and men- 
tally no one rule will apply to all people — except to 
obey Nature in the true meaning of Nature. Differ- 
ent organisms require different treatment, and the 
psychic gifts of seeing and understanding each indi- 
vidual gives the capacity to apply the right method 
under right conditions to obtain the desired result. 
Without this recognition of individual life, it is im- 
possible to successfully prescribe for any ill in life, or 
remove the unfortunate conditions. 

Without this true individualization the individ- 
uality of others is not recognized, for we cannot see 
in another that distinct individuality if we do not 
recognize it in self. 

Thus we see why it is necessary to first become 
conscious of the unfoldment of individual life first, 
then one may be able to be of assistance to other lives, 
physically, mentally and spiritually. 

We find in the individual character the life prin- 



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ciples set forth by Deity through natural law. That 
means that every faculty should be harmonized and 
bring about the harmony of the physical organism, 
and the harmony of mind. Thus the unison of body, 
soul and mind are complete, and in perfect attune- 
ment with all life's expressions upon the various 
planes of development, and the value of all life is 
recognized whether it be in a small form, or of a 
high spiritual consciousness. 

This consciousness brings love and peace and char- 
ity and unselfishness to the individual, and gives to 
every creature absolute justice, and the desire that 
all may partake of all that is true and good that is 
so freely offered by Nature to all lives. This is the 
true guide and protector, and will heal, sustain, and 
unfold favorable conditions for the lives of others to 
characterize from the fountains of their own lives, 
and expand in wisdom and power. 

This consciousness lives in the aura, and is filled 
with emanations from the soul and mind that are the 
normal and natural expressions of Deity's laws in 
Nature. 

This aura is gained through the unf oldment of the 
organism, body, soul and spirit. It does not come 
for the asking — or become beautiful through false 
beliefs and erring ways, but it is won through, 
struggle and the overcoming of all lower environ- 
ments and characteristics. In the presence of such 



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a person, you sense harmony, strength, peace, truth 
and justice. 

Such a character, especially if a healer, radiates a 
magnetic aura that is light and peace and all that is 
powerful to dispel darkness and illness, and give 
truth, and lead each into the higher attributes of his 
own life through the awakening of the consciousness 
to the atmosphere and mentality that he possesses. 

Then may each adjust his own life through this 
clearer understanding. Assistance in this is natural 
and normal at first, and it is right to ask for this 
sustaining power and kindly light, that through this 
individualization you may be born into this life, and 
live in the aura of the individual power, character- 
ized through the laws of Deific life. 

This Magnetic Aura lives. It never dies but con- 
tinues with the individual throughout eternity. 

Its luminous effects (because of the soul's radia- 
tions) make it powerful to dispel darkness; it is soft 
and peaceful in its influence, yet strong in the wisdom 
of God ; loving and gentle as an angel in its deific 
manifestations. 

Its influence is harmonious for life building. Its 
intelligence will manifest in the limitless degree of 
the wisdom of the soul that is ever drawing from the 
great soul center of the universe, and this manifests 
to the needs of every life, every hour, under every 
condition, and meets the demands of every occasion. 



200 SCIENCE AKD POWEE 

All the powers of life play an important part in 
the magnetic aura of the individual, characterized by 
the powers and principles of the life of the Nazarene 
who unfolded his life through the same principles 
and laws. 

This magnetic aura is the ethereal form or emana- 
tion that holds the essences and perfumes and beau- 
ties and powers and life-giving principles for all that 
is up-building, all that is sustaining to all who will 
open their spiritual consciousness to truth and invite 
its help, and yield to its influence. 

Thus may the world be made happier, wiser in the 
influence and deific power of this life-giving force 
that lives in the magnetic aura that radiates from the 
individual mind. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 

PSYCHIC SCIENCE, OR THE SCIENCE 
OF THE SOUL. 

When the spiritual consciousness of the individual 
has been awakened and the faculties of the mind 
unfolded and developed and harmony of body and 
mind is established, then one sees from the soul centre 
of one's own being. 

This opening of the divine gateway and the natural 
use of all the soul's faculties removes all errors of 
thought, and leads one into the supremacy of life. 

It is only through man's superficial and artificial 
living that these natural "gifts" have seemed unna- 
tural, and consequently have not been considered in 
their true relationship and possibilities to all men. 

This has made unnatural individuals who could 
not behold their true privileges. It has been a loss 
and an unfortunate conclusion, for it has given man 
the wrong interpretation of divine law and led to 



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unnatural religious beliefs, which in turn have proven 
disastrous to the freedom of mind, or freedom of the 
individual and thus robbed the world of true justice 
to all. 

On the other hand the spiritual scientists and seers 
have unfolded this soul intelligence and have become 
illuminated, and have realized in their consciousness 
the truth of the spiritual principles that lead man 
into the larger conception of life and the more perfect 
adaptations of Natural living. 

The world has gradually recognized that the vision 
of seers is something more than imagination or 
hallucination, and as never before there is an earnest 
search for the truths of Mental Life. They begin to 
ask more about these unknown laws, that they may 
have more knowledge of the laws that govern indi- 
vidual life and of their own inherent powers, that 
ignorance may be overcome, and that the common peo- 
ple may be freed and that the weak may be assisted, 
and the unfortunate emancipated from whatever form 
of slavery has been thrust upon them — industrially, 
socially, religiously, by foul conditions, and injustice 
of any kind ; that all may be led into a consciousness 
of the simple methods of living, that false teachings 
be removed and the uncivilized statutory laws that 
are imposed upon mankind through ignorance of 
Natural law, and the soul rights of every individual. 



OF THE MIND 203 

Then will mankind see with spiritual eyes, hear 
with spiritual ears, and know by spiritual knowledge. 

Then will the unexpected strength of life throb in 
the heart, because the soul consciousness has im- 
pressed the mind with its inspiration and power and 
lifted them from all the unwise entanglements of 
life. They have entered into the higher plane and 
are encircled by the protecting arms of Deity. 

Through the liberty of Nature's laws all have come 
into the wisdom, that is provided for every individ- 
ual. In every land and upon every sea they will be 
stronger and nobler and unfold the higher intellectual 
life, and truth will be the consciousness of every soul. 

This psychic unfoldment will bring love and justice 
to the world, and teach the universal principles of 
right living, for usefulness, for happiness, for true 
adaptability and harmony, as well as the healing for 
physical suffering. 

This psychic or soul self does not only see the needs 
of the sick, but it senses the conditions of every indi- 
vidual it comes in touch with, and knows Deity's 
natural remedy that is supplied through natural laws, 
and realizes the limitless possibilities of the soul. 
This Natural diagnosing of disease and this natural 
power of healing has already demonstrated its truth, 
and the world is asking for more light and a better 
knowledge of what has been so little regarded and so 
dis-favored by the medical profession. 



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People are becoming conscious of its naturalness, 
and are observing its results when the artificial 
methods fail. 

For the soul-science of seeing and hearing lifts the 
individual out of the lower conditions of illness and 
inharmony into the higher vibratory plane which is 
in likeness to the soul — into a spiritual atmosphere 
which is life itself, into a power which is different 
from all other forms of healing. This soul power 
becomes a natural instinct in regard to every relation- 
ship of lif e, and will choose that or those with which 
it is in harmony. It is superior to any opinion, any 
form, any custom, any religion, for it is the divine 
illumination of every individual in whom it is 
developed and not made subservient to the inter- 
ference and intervention of those who assume author- 
ity over the sacred rights of the individual. 

It gives one the key-note to all attunements — it is 
also the key itself that unlocks all truth. 

When this is understood the world will not dis- 
regard the psychic laws, but will see that they are 
the principles of the soul itself that make the indi- 
vidual nobler; and that such individuals naturally 
attract those in likeness to them — their own comes to 
them — spiritually, mentally, and materially. 

Through this natural gravitation you will have 
labor and pleasure, and a larger consciousness of the 
welfare of all humanity. 



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This is not an influence or attainment of a position 
that can be weighed or measured by the conception of 
man, but is a power felt and known by the throbbing 
hearts of those who appreciate such psychic values; 
it is recognized by large minds, it is loved by the 
angels, and it will always accompany you throughout 
life — here in the seen, and the unseen. 



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AFTEK-WOKD. 

We have endeavored to show what man may become 
by adjusting himself to the harmonious laws of the 
universe and of his own being. How the Natural 
governing principles of life are the same in all mani- 
festation, how health and harmony, and all adapta- 
tions and relationships are formed by the vibratory 
conditions of the individual; how the mind through 
its powers can control the life of the individual. 

Mind has already accomplished the seemingly im- 
possible in the physical world. It has studied phys- 
ical causes and effects in all their branches and 
become wonderfully intelligent. It has undertaken 
colossal achievements — it has built wonderful struct- 
ures, bridged chasms, cut into isthmuses, tunneled 
under mountains, irrigated desert places, mastered 
navigation, gone to the uttermost parts of the earth, 
and sailed among the clouds ; it has invented marvel- 
ous machines and communicating devices — and yet 
it is in the infancy of its development, for it is yet 



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■unacquainted with its own powers, its own possibil- 
ities, which are limitless. 

Through the qualities of mind as we have explained 
it, through a realization of the soul's radiation, 
through the better understanding of the vibratory 
principles, through a consciousness of the harmony of 
all life and the realization that there is no beginning 
nor ending, no separation of the spheres — only rela- 
tionship and degrees, man will know that it is in his 
own hands that his development is placed, and a new 
inspiration is given him by the truths of Individual- 
ization. 



Maintain your right in the Universe as a child 
of God. 



Maintain your right to do good for evil. 



Maintain your right of One-ness with the Father 
and be limitless in your humanity. 



Fear not ! Live in harmony with spiritual law 
and in the wisdom of Life. 



Why think ye sorrowfully of death? It is thy 
re-birth into the higher life. 



Wander no longer in doubts and uncertainties. 
A true understanding of Nature will unfold truth 
and progress to every mind. 



Judge not bitterly of the tears and sorrows of life. 
They are but the advocators of broader unfoldment 
and happier realizations. 



Oh, brother man, scatter broadcast the seed of 
uplifting love, that all humanity may be blessed by 
the spirit of mercy. 



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